Why top US award recipient George Soros is a controversial figure in India

George Soros, along with 18 others, received the highest civilian award in the United States - the medal of freedom - on Sunday from outgoing president Joe Biden. George Soros had not only been an outspoken critic of PM Modi, but is also accused of supporting “the idea of an independent Kashmir” through his organisation, Open Society Foundation. Soros vs Adani In February 2023, George Soros addressed the Munich Security Conference and during his speech said that allying with business tycoon Adani, in the aftermath of the first Hindenburg report could “significantly weaken Modi’s stranglehold on India’s federal government”, reported The Financial Times. BJP MP Nishikant Dubey wrote on X, “Congress is hand in glove with George Soros, did Soros pay for Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra or not, Soros paid for 1000 Indian children to study abroad, and how many of them are children of Congress leaders?" The BJP on social media platform X allegedly also shared pictures where they replaced images of Babasaheb Ambedkar on the Congress' placards and put George Soros on them.