'20% more people vote today in India than some decades back': Jaishankar at MSC

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday countered the notion of democracy being under threat worldwide, put forth during a panel discussion in Munich, Germany. He was speaking during a panel discussion on 'Live to Vote Another Day: Fortifying Democratic Resilience' at the Munich Security Conference. Asked about his views on western democracy, Jaishankar said "Right now we are living well, we are voting well, we are optimistic about the direction of our democracy and for us actually democracy is delivered. By the time we started voting in the modern era, 20% people more vote today then they did decades ago. So the first message that somehow democracy is in trouble globally, I am sorry I have to differ with it." He also took on a panellist who said "democracy does not put food on the table."