Bengaluru: Dec 8: Stumped by a fake WhatsApp message mischievously attributed to him, Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy clarified in a Facebook post on Monday that he had not delivered any such speech on Prime Minister Modi.
He then chose to clear the air by posting this on his Facebook page: “I have been receiving several messages from friends and colleagues about a supposed speech with my name on it. I am told this has been circulating over WhatsApp. Since I am not able to reply to everybody individually, I am posting my response here. While I have respect for the PM, as evinced in my various interviews over the past couple of years, this message/ speech is fake. This style of prose is not reflective of how I think, write, or speak.”
The fake WhatsApp post was in praise of Prime Minister Modi. Interestingly, Murthy’s name had figured in a fake post even in July. He had then taken to Twitter to clarify on that post linked to Parsees. He had tweeted on July 12:?“I am told a fake speech being circulated on Parsees on my name. I am not the author. I have respect for Parsees, Ambani, Birla and Mittal.”
Murthy had recently expressed concerns that there is considerable fear in the minds of minority in India and said that the governments should bring back the sense of confidence in them.
"I am not a politician, I am not interested in politics, therefore, I don't want to comment on that but the reality today is that there is considerable fear in the minds of minority in India," he said.
He said that there was also "considerable fear" in the minds of people of one region living in another region.
No country, the IT veteran said, has ever made steady economic progress unless "there is no distrust, there is no fear, unless the majority community doesn't oppress the minority community, doesn't want the minority community to do what it wants etc."
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