‘I’m not anti-business, I’m anti-monopoly’, says Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi said on Thursday that he was “anti-monopoly” and not “anti-business”.

The Congress leader was responding to criticism of an editorial he wrote in The Indian Express a day prior, titled A New Deal for Indian Business.

“I have been projected by my opponents in the BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party] to be anti-business,” Gandhi said in a post on social media. “I am anti-creating oligopolies. I am anti-domination of business by one or two or three or five people.”

The economy would thrive if there is free and fair space for all businesses, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha said, adding that he was “pro-jobs, pro-business, pro-innovation, pro-competition”.

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. pic.twitter.com/hySqQKpRdJ— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) November 7, 2024

In the editorial in The Indian Express on Wednesday, Gandhi said that the government cannot be allowed to support one business at the expense of all others. “Our institutions no longer belong to our people, they do the bidding of monopolists,” he said.

However, the Congress leader added that there were a larger number of “play-fair” Indian businesses in contrast to the “match-fixing” monopoly groups. “You persevere in an oppressive system,” he said,

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