#WATCH# | Hyderabad, Telangana: On the Bharat Summit 2026, Founder, Managing Trustee, and Director of the Samruddha Bharat Foundation (SBF India), Pushparaj Deshpande says, "I have helped organise the Bharat Summit under the leadership of Chief Minister Revanth Reddy and others, under the overall guidance of Salman Khurshid, Sam Pitroda and LoP Rahul Gandhi. This entire summit was curated as a Global South platform for progressives. We had over 323 delegates who had confirmed across 70 countries. Unfortunately, even though they were in full compliance of MEA guidelines and had political clearances, they were suddenly, abruptly rescinded. The visas were denied. Multiple things happened from the Government of India, and we have lost almost 116, 117 delegates. This is extremely unfortunate because all the people who were coming were either from progressive parties or ruling governments: South Africa, Brazil, Malaysia, the Philippines; all of these parties are in government, alongside South Korea. Now for us, for the Government of India to say that these parties are suddenly somehow coming to be anti-national and say that the Bharat Summit is anti-national is a bit penny-wise, pound-foolish..."