Sangh war cry on Walmart deal

J.P. YADAV, Jun 03, 2018 00:00 

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's economic and labour outfits on Saturday asked the government not to approve the Walmart-Flipkart deal and declared war on e-commerce websites, claiming that most of them followed a "cash burning" model that was against the country's interest.

"Government departments cannot allow the Walmart-Flipkart deal to go through," Swadeshi Jagran Manch national convener Ashwani Mahajan said.

"We are not against e-commerce but platforms that are engaged in the cash burning model cannot be allowed to run. They are trying to capture the Indian market to finish off our domestic businesses, farmers, etc," he declared.

Walmart Inc, the Arkansas-based retailing behemoth, last month announced a deal to acquire 77 per cent stake in Flipkart, an Indian e-commerce giant.

The RSS affiliates said the deal was illegal and accused Walmart of trying to capture the Indian market through the backdoor. They vowed a countrywide agitation to stop the deal from getting government approval.

Mahajan said most e-commerce platforms doing business in India followed the "cash burning" model - engaging in "predatory pricing" and suffering losses to capture the market. He also cited taxi aggregator Uber. Other speakers named e-commerce portals Myntra and Jabong.

The event, chaired by sidelined BJP MP Murli Manohar Joshi, also saw leaders of Sangh outfits like the Laghu Udyog Bharati and the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh oppose the Walmart-Flipkart deal.

"Companies like Walmart are East India Company multiplied by 10, 15, 20...," Joshi said, alleging that their main target was to steal Indians' data and use it to capture the country's market.

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