Sam Jawed - “Too much democracy”: NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant denies what he stated twice
What exactly did Kant say? To find out what exactly Kant said, Alt News listened to the recording of the event and found that he had indeed said India is “too much of a democracy” not once but twice. First, at 25.43, Kant can be heard as saying, “In India we are too much of a democracy so we keep supporting everybody”. He went on to elaborate, “For the first time in India a government has thought big in terms of size and scale and said we want to produce global champions. Nobody had the political will and the courage to say that we want to support five companies who want to be global champions....
NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant denies what he stated twice
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Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog, found himself in the middle of a controversy when he was quoted by Hindustan Times as saying, “Too much of democracy hampering reforms in India” while speaking at a virtual event organised by Swarajya Magazine. Kant took to Twitter to deny saying these words. “This is definitely not what I said. I was speaking about MEIS scheme & resources being spread thin & need for creating global champions in manufacturing sector,” he Kant.
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Hindustan Times tweet and article were based on a PTI report. After Kant’s reaction, Hindustan Times deleted the tweet as well as the article. The link now opens to a page that states, “This story, sourced from news agency Press Trust of India, has been withdrawn“. The PTI story, however, is available on other publications like Financial Express and India Today while The Indian Express has changed its original headline of “India has too much democracy, tough reforms difficult” to “India needs more reforms, states must take lead: NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant”. In fact, Swarajya tweeted that “some mischievous elements have attempted to distort” and quote Kant’s statement out of context.
What
exactly did Kant say? To find out what exactly Kant said, Alt News listened to
the recording
of the event and found that he had indeed said India is “too much of a
democracy” not once but twice.
First, at 25.43, Kant can be heard as saying, “In India we
are too much of a democracy so we keep supporting everybody”. He went on to
elaborate, “For the first time in India a government has thought big in terms
of size and scale and said we want to produce global champions. Nobody had the
political will and the courage to say that we want to support five companies
who want to be global champions. Everyone used to say I want to support
everyone in India, I want to get votes from everyone.”…
https://www.altnews.in/too-much-democracy-niti-aayog-ceo-amitabh-kant-denies-what-he-stated-twice/
Hong
Kong police arrest pro-democracy activists in widening crackdown
NB: This is not surprising, because the Chinese
Communist Party has a long history of suppressing freedom of speech and
opinion. Let us note however, the statement of the RSS leader Mohan
Bhagwat: China
has risen and doesn't care what the world thinks of it. Let us also
note that the CEO of Niti Aayog believes that Indian
democracy makes 'hard reforms' difficult. It's difficult to imagine that
the RSS's dreams of 'greatness' and the economists' dreams of 'hard reforms' would
ever adversely affect the status, power and incomes of these men who claim to
know best what is good for us. Their ideologically
driven agenda has two components, religious divisiveness for
manipulation of mass sentiment; and use of state power for the benefit of
monopoly capitalists on the other. The so-called Sangh Parivar is a delivery
vehicle for corporate capital. They would like to see democracy demolished in
order to realise their dreams of 'hard reforms' and great-power status. This is
why they envy the totalitarian dictatorship of
the People's Republic of China. DS
Kumarappa
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