Indian High Commissioner to the UK Vikram DoraiswamiPoll Do you agree with India's approach to maintaining energy imports from Russia despite global sanctions? Yes, it's necessary for the economy No, India should comply with sanctionsNEW DELHI: Indian High Commissioner to the UK Vikram Doraiswami schooled the Western journalist over criticising India's oil imports from Russia and said that the New Delhi is the third largest consumer of energy in the world and imports over 80% of its products. Second, we have an energy relationship today which is a result of everybody else buying energy from sources that we used to earlier buy from. So we've been displaced out of the energy market largely and the cost have gone up. These are we are the third largest consumer of energy in the world and we import over 80% of our product.

Source: The Times July 28, 2025 19:43 UTC