Panchjanya terms Amazon as ‘East India Company 2.0’

Increasing concerns are being expressed by organisations associated with the RSS about the corporate sector in the country, not just India Inc, but multinational corporations as well. Not just cover stories in the RSS associated Panchjanya magazine, which had taken on Amazon this week after having taken on Infosys a couple of weeks ago, but also the Swadeshi Jagaran Manch, an organisation that lobbied successfully for India’s exit from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, has been raising the red flag over what it terms “flipping” of Indian unicorns. After hitting out at the Infosys group in a cover story for messing up India’s Income Tax portal and attributing unsavoury motives to this mess up, calling into question the group’s patriotism, this week, the magazine took on Amazon. In the cover story, the magazine minced no words in terming the company “East India Company 2.0” for its “marauding, unethical ways” and alleged that the company had bribed Indian officials. However, to ultimately discourage Indian start-ups to flip, we need to take some tough measures as well, including those who flip, a foreign company.” The concerns expressed by organisations associated with the RSS reflect the uneasiness with regard to certain developments in the corporate sector within the ideological universe of the BJP, the Sangh Parivar.