The most talented people will leave Mumbai, says Percy Mistry

Percy Mistry, who headed the expert committee which first recommended that an International Financial Centre IFC be ideated in Mumbai, says the black ink blot of the Sudheendra Kulkarni book launch will make investors cut and run from the city.

“They (state government) will ensure that Mumbai will never become an IFC of any note or utility to India or the world. But they will also ensure that the most talented, entrepreneurial people (of whatever race, religion, persuasion) who have contributed to making Mumbai what it once was, will feel obliged to leave over time and abandon it to a much worse fate,” Mistry told The Indian Express.

On Monday, Shiv Sena goons attacked Sudheendra Kulkarni, chairman of the Observer Research Foundation and aide of former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee with black ink on his face before a book launch.

Mistry was appointed by former finance minister P Chidambaram to work on a blueprint  to showcase a global financial centre in Mumbai.

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