FDI IN RETAIL: Major showdown on Dec 4-5 by traders
Author(s): City Air NewsNew Delhi, December 1, 2012: By observing December 4-5, the day when Loksabha will initiate a debate on FDI in Retail, as "Anti-FDI Days" the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) and organisations of farmers,...
New Delhi, December 1, 2012: By observing December 4-5, the day when Loksabha will initiate a debate on FDI in Retail, as "Anti-FDI Days" the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) and organisations of farmers, traders, hawkers, small industry, transporter and consumer will hold nationwide protest to attack FDI in Retail under their joint coalition the "Khudra FDI Virodhi Rashtryia Morcha".
To strongly condemn the manipulative politics, the Morcha will burn effigy of "Jugaad Rajneeti" at more than 500 places in the country on the same day.
"Black protest' march, dharna, demonstrations, torch procession, human chain, token hunger strike and other modes of effective protests will be held in different states of the Country. The participants in such protests will wear black gowns or black clothes holding black flags. At Jantar Mantar in New Delhi a distinguished tableau of "Jugaad Rajneeti" will expose the face of manipulative politics on FDI in Retail while opposing the modus operandi of FDI in Retail. Why the government is so eager to allow MNCs in retail trade shall also be exposed.
Slamming "Jugaad Rajneeti” (manipulative politics) as a" cancerous disease" for the democracy, the CAIT made it clear that "earlier opposition and now support" mode will be bitterly opposed by all sections of retail trade. "Now, the issue has a direct link with vote bank politics and traders have been compelled to convert themselves into a vote bank", said CAIT National President B. C. Bhartia and Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal in a joint statement released here today.
Keeping an eye on the next general elections 2014 and various Assembly elections in 2013, a strategy has already been designed to reach upto polling booth level in each constituency to develop trading community comprising of more than 5 crore traders all over the country and crores of people of other sectors of retail trade into a committed vote bank. The mode of strategy shall be disclosed soon after the debate in Parliament over FDI in Retail trade is over.
Both Bhartia and Khandelwal said that the CAIT is releasing a White Paper on FDI in Retail tomorrow at New Delhi listing out the evil designs of the government on FDI in Retail, non-democratic functioning on the issue, inculcation of incorrect facts and figures to make out a flimsy case of necessity of FDI in Retail, gross ignorance of legislative process, non study of impact of FDI in Retail on stakeholders, granting extra ordinary benefits to global retailers, and major deviations from the FDI policy laid by Anand Sharma on November 25, 2011 and the notification issued by the government on September 20, 2012.
The CAIT has made an appeal to all political parties to oppose FDI in Retail as it will prove to be much detrimental to economy and retail trade of the country.