"...... metaphor 'Khan market gang' is a very good description....I want to tell you there is an international Khan Market gang as well" : Jaishankar,

"In the country today there is a certain thought process, the entitlement process....which I think that metaphor 'Khan market gang' is a very good description....I want to tell you there is an international Khan Market gang as well...," said Dr S Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister.  

"These are the people who are linked to the entitled people out here.... They are socially comfortable with them. They know them, they feel like them".

They feel like they advance similar viewpoints. They are essentially a kind of an elitist, left-lib thought process. So there's a symbiotic relationship between the two," he added.

"When the sales are down in the domestic Khan Market, the International Khan Market gang feels like, I need to pep up these guys and give them support and you can actually see which stories they play up, how do they slant things and in previous elections perhaps even in this one they've actually openly endorsed parties and will openly endorse leaders and openly said that this party or this leader is bad for India," the foreign minister said, according to ANI.

On election outcome, he said: "For us, it will be Dakshin mein double (double in terms of BJP's performance in southern states). For the Opposition, I will say Uttar mein (that is northern India where BJP did very well and Congress performance was very bad in 2019), it will be more trouble".