Infosys co-founder N.R Narayana Murthy on Saturday said that looking at "what is happening in different parts of the country today", the youth need to state bluntly that this was not the country for which our forefathers got freedom.

He rued that Indians generally tend not to "displease" anybody even when it is needed.

"If you look at what is happening in different parts of the country today, it is time that we, especially the youth, stood up and say this is not the kind of the country our forefathers had got the freedom for,” he said during a panel discussion at St Xavier's College in Mumbai.