Rahul Rajiv Gandhi, the 12th Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha in a video post on X revealed he started his career as a management consultant and thus understood how a business can succeed.
Gandhi’s video on Thursday morning is coming 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.
Gandhi had responded in the video: “I am pro-Jobs, pro-Business, pro-Innovation, and pro-Competition. I am anti-Monopoly. Our economy will thrive when there is free and fair space for all businesses.”
The BJP reacted after Gandhi, in an opinion piece in The Indian Express, said 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 haven 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.