RAHUL GANDHI: WHEN WE COME TO POWER…

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2017 at Berkeley: “Everything is geared towards them (the top 100 companies), the banking systems are monopolised by them and the doors of government are always open to them. And laws are shaped by them. Small and medium businesses are the bedrock of India and the world’s innovation. But they get no support. Big businesses can easily manage the unpredictability of India. They are protected by their deep deep pockets and connections.”

2018 in Dubai: “Narendra Modi is directly responsible for the decimation of the informal sector. We will make a number of rational economic moves when we come to power. Priority number one would be job creation, where the current government is failing…We have a massive unemployment problem.”

2018 in Hamburg, Germany: "It is very dangerous in the 21st century to exclude people. If you don't give people a vision in the 21st century somebody else will give them one….And that's the real risk of excluding large number of people from our development processes,"…

They imposed a badly conceptualised GST which complicated lives further…Large numbers of people who worked in small businesses were forced back to the villages and these three things that the government has done has made India angry.”

2018 in Dubai: “Our party has a record. We’re the party of liberalisation. We’re the party that will provide the fastest economic growth India has ever had in the first decade of this century.”

(Last week's data in this column was sourced from PRS India. The omission is regretted)