Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Thursday said he was “anti-monopoly”.
“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,” said Gandhi ina video shared on X.
The Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha said he started his career as a management consultant and thus understood how a business can succeed.
Gandhi’s video was released after the BJP slammed him for making “baseless accusations” against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and asked him to examine facts before jumping to conclusions.
The BJP wrote on X: “Another baseless accusation against the Modi government through the so-called ‘match-fixing monopoly groups versus fair-play businesses’ is simply misleading.” “Dear Baalak Buddhi, do not jump to conclusions without examining facts,” the saffron party said in a veiled reference to Gandhi.
The BJP reacted after Gandhi, in an opinion piece in The Indian Express,s aid the original East India Company wound up its operations more than 150 years ago but the raw fear it then generated is back now, with a new breed of monopolists having taken its place. “The government cannot be allowed to support one business at the expense of all others, much less support benami equations in the business system. Government agencies are not weapons to be used to attack and intimidate businesses. That said, I do not believe that fear should be transferred from you to these big monopolists. They are not evil individuals, but simply the outcome of the deficiencies of our societal and political environment. They should get space, and so should you,” he wrote.
Members of royal families across India have condemned Congress leader for insulting their ancestors in his recently published editorial and termed the accusations “baseless” and “unacceptable”. In his opinion piece in IE, Gandhi said the royal scions’ ancestors were “pliant Maharajas” who were threatened by the East India Company that ruined India.
Union Minister Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia, who belongs to the Scindia family that ruled Gwalior until India’s independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, said India’s legacy doesn’t begin or end with the title “Gandhi”. “Your selective amnesia about your own privilege is a disservice to those truly striving against adversity. Your dissonance only exposes Congress’ agenda further-Rahul Gandhi is no champion of Atmanirbhar Bharat; he is merely a product of an outdated entitlement,” Scindia posted on X.
