I am a supporter of jobs, trade, innovation and competition, but against monopoly: Rahul Gandhi

Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has responded to the allegations of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He mentioned that he’s being offered as anti-business by BJP leaders. Rahul Gandhi launched a video on Thursday saying that he’s not anti-business, however is strongly towards monopoly and financial energy being concentrated in a single place. Rahul additionally instructed how he began his profession. The Congress chief mentioned that he began his profession as a administration marketing consultant.

Rahul Gandhi mentioned that BJP has misrepresented his stand. Whereas sharing the video, Rahul Gandhi wrote, 'I’m a supporter of jobs, a supporter of enterprise, a supporter of innovation, a supporter of competitors. I’m towards monopoly. Our financial system will solely flourish when there’s a free and truthful surroundings for all companies.

Rahul mentioned within the video, 'I wish to make one factor very clear that my opponents in BJP have offered me as anti-business. I’m not anti-trade in any respect. I’m anti-monopoly. I’m towards creating an oligopoly. I’m towards the domination of 1 or two or 3 or 5 individuals. I began my profession as a administration marketing consultant and I perceive what it takes to make a enterprise profitable. So I simply wish to reiterate, I'm not anti-business, I'm anti-monopoly.

Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh has additionally focused BJP. He mentioned, “Rahul Gandhi ji had presented his economic vision in front of the entire country during ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ and ‘Bharat Jodo Nyaya Yatra’. Apart from this, Rahul ji also reiterated the social and economic justice enshrined in the Constitution. His message is that private investors are needed for India's economic development. The country can progress only with the help of private investors. But the way our economy is today there is monopoly. There is an atmosphere of fear and intimidation, which is not in the national interest. Rahul Gandhi has presented an agenda for the country as to how economic development should take place. He believes that economic development should be for all Indians, everyone should get equal opportunities. It should not be limited to just a few capitalists. Rahul Gandhi ji is repeatedly saying that we need private investment, industrialization and urbanization, but we have to avoid such capitalists who take advantage of their political connections.”

Earlier, Rahul Gandhi had accused the federal government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi of working a 'monopoly mannequin'. In an article he wrote within the Indian Categorical, lakhs of companies have been ruined by these 'oligarchs', making it troublesome to create employment. Gandhi mentioned that these 'match fixing' monopoly teams have amassed immense wealth amid rising inequality. 'The unique East India Firm closed down 150 years in the past however the concern it created is again. A brand new breed of monopolists have taken its place. “They have amassed immense wealth, while India has become far more unequal and unfair to everyone else.”