New Delhi, March 29 -- Vedanta Ltd Chairman Anil Agarwal on Sunday broke silence on the reversal of the conglomerate's Jaiprakash Associates bid, which was turned down by lenders last year despite the company being the highest bidder to acquire the asset.

Invoking the Gita in a statement on X, Agarwal said, "This morning, I was reading Chapter 15 of the Bhagavad Gita. One thought stayed with me. "Have courage. Stay humble. Do your duty without attachment." Life tested this."

He narrated the series of events with which Vedanta had originally emerged as the highest bidder for Jaiprakash Associates. "One by one, everyone dropped out of the bidding. Finally, we were declared the highest bidder publicly," he said.

Agarwal revealed that Veda...