Key Points
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, invoking East India Company, said that the fear they had generated before Indias independence, is back in the corporate ecosystem..
However, Gandhi said that as there are match-fixing monopoly groups, there are also a number of amazing play-fair Indian businesses...
In an opinion column written for The Indian Express, Gandhi said he does not know of any product innovation or market development that the East India Company had undertaken..
The Congress leader said Indias brilliant and dynamic business leaders are scared ofspeaking out for fear of raids from agencies such as the Income Tax Department, Central Bureau of Investigation, or Enforcement Directorate..
Gandhi names Peyush Bansal, a first-generation entrepreneur with no political contacts, who co-founded eyewear company Lenskart in 2010, Faqir Chand Kohli who built Tata Consultancy in the 1970s as a manager as some of the play-fair Indian businessmen...
