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Straight Talk : I am not anti-business in the least, I am anti-monopoly, I am anti-creating oligopolies, I am anti-domination of business by one or 2 or 5 people – Rahul Gandhi, Leader Of Opposition.
Rahul Gandhi has asserted that he was not “anti-business” as being projected by the BJP but was “anti-monopoly” and “anti-creating oligopolies”
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Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has asserted that he was not “anti-business” as being projected by the BJP but was “anti-monopoly” and “anti-creating oligopolies”.
As per PTI, report, His remarks came a day after he penned an opinion piece in The Indian Express in which he said the original East India Company wound up over 150 years ago but the raw fear it then generated is back with a new breed of monopolists having taken its place.
Gandhi, however, had asserted that a “new deal for progressive Indian business is an idea whose time has come”.
In a video posted on X on Thursday, Gandhi said, “I want to make something absolutely clear, I have been projected by my opponents in the BJP to be anti-business. I am not anti-business in the least, I am anti-monopoly, I am anti-creating oligopolies, I am anti-domination of business by one or 2 or 5 people.”
I am pro-Jobs, pro-Business, pro-Innovation, pro-Competition. I am anti-Monopoly.
Our economy will thrive when there is free and fair space for all businesses. pic.twitter.com/hySqQKpRdJ
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) November 7, 2024
“I started my career as a management consultant and I understand the type of things that are required for a business to succeed. So I just want to repeat, I am not anti-business, I am anti-monopoly,” the former Congress chief said.
In his post accompanying the video, Gandhi said, “I am pro-Jobs, pro-Business, pro-Innovation, pro-Competition. I am anti-Monopoly.” “Our economy will thrive when there is free and fair space for all businesses,” Gandhi asserted. In his article, Gandhi had said India was silenced by the East India Company and it was silenced not by its business prowess, but by its chokehold. The Company choked India by partnering with, bribing, and threatening more pliant maharajas and nawabs, he pointed out. “It controlled our banking, bureaucratic, and information networks. We didn’t lose our freedom to another nation; we lost it to a monopolistic corporation that ran a coercive apparatus,” he said.
The original East India Company wound up over 150 years ago, but the raw fear it then generated is back, he claimed. A new breed of monopolists has taken its place, amassing colossal wealth, even as India has become far more unequal and unfair for everybody else, Gandhi had said.
