On Saturday (January 7), a new episode of India’s most iconic television show Aap Ki Adalat’ aired, in which India’s top billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani recalled the horrific 26/11 attack, revealing how he got “a new life” after witnessing nearly 10-hour of a gruesome attack on Taj Hotel.
Notably, the Mumbai attacks were a series of terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when at least ten members of Lashkar-e-Taiba– an Islamist terrorist organisation from Pakistan– carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across the “city of dreams”.
“I was holding meetings with friends when terrorists attacked Hotel Taj”
In an exclusive interview with India TV Editor-in-Chief and Chairman, Rajat Sharma, Adani recalled the fateful day, saying he was holding a business meeting with his Dubai-based friends at the Hotel Taj when he heard the building was under attack. According to India’s richest man, he witnessed the terrorist attack on the Taj Hotel in Mumbai.
“I had just finished a meeting with some friends who had travelled here from Dubai. I was about to leave the hotel after paying the bills when some of my friends asked me to hold another round of meetings. I chose to remain in the restaurant where we had finished our meal “Adani stated.
The multinational conglomerate whose organisation has been involved in port development and several crucial operations in India said that he might be killed if he would have not been sat for the next round of meeting with his friends. “I was thinking… If I had not sat for the meeting…. I might be roaming on the balcony, where the terrorists attacked with lethal weapons,” he recalled. This might result deadly for me, he said.