On Saturday (January 7), a new edition of India’s most popular television show Aap Ki Adalat’ aired, in which India’s top billionaire businessman Gautam Adani recounted the awful 26/11 attack, revealing how he acquired “a new life” after watching nearly 10-hour of a gruesome attack on Taj Hotel.
Notably, the Mumbai attacks were a series of terrorist assaults that occurred in November 2008, when at least ten members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani Islamist terrorist organization, carried out 12 synchronized shooting and bombing operations across the “city of dreams” over the course of four days.
Recalling the ill-fated day, Adani, in an exclusive interview with India TV Editor-in-Chief and Chairman, Rajat Sharma, said that he was holding a business meeting with his Dubai-based friends at the Hotel Taj when he heard that the building was under attack. According to India’s richest man, he had seen terrorists when they attacked the Hotel Taj in Mumbai.
“I had completed a meeting with my friends who came here (Mumbai) from Dubai. After paying the bills, I was about to exit the hotel, when some of my friends asked me to hold another round of meetings. I chose to stay in the restaurant where we had completed the dinner,” said Adani.
“Later, we started the meeting with a cup of coffee. Unexpectedly, I came to know that the hotel was under attack by the terrorists. After a few minutes, the hotel staff took me to the kitchen using a back door. These kinds of dedication are very rare. Really, the staff member of the Taj Hotel is very dedicated,” he added.
“I might be killed… if I would have…”
Later, Mr. Adani recalled how he was rescued by the commandos at around 7:30 am (November 27, 2008) with full security.
The multinational conglomerate whose organization 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.
