This is a thread on #RahulBajaj 's criticism of the NaMo regime, based on my 32-year experience as a business and economic journalist
Powerful business czars usually prefer backroom channels to voice their grievances against govt. That usually works for them. What Bajaj says is a measure of the environment today. Yes there are precedents from the past that NaMo acolyte rhetoric tries to mask.
Many captains of industry have, however, spoken their mind, usually to express something that bothers them, but couched as reflecting a greater common good.The most obvious examples are those by influential IT industry honchos - Azim Premji and Narayana Murthy come to mind easily
What makes #RahulBajaj ’s statement unique is the fact that his utterances were of a very general nature - about the atmosphere in the NaMo times. That is rare for a captain. On the spate of lynchings across the country, for example, I can’t recall a single captain speaking out.
What lends credibility to Bajaj’s statement is the fact that he has not been shy of criticising his own. peers. Recently, as the wheels were coming off the auto industry, he urged fellow manufacturers to look within and examine why they have failed to improve/modernise
Defenders like Gurumurthy’s claim industrialists hadnt complained about regimes in the past simply isnt true, although is true that industrialists as a class usyally don’t prefer to do so. They prefer the backroom options-you know what I mean (maybe electoral bonds,for instance!)
What makes #RahulBajaj ’s statement unique is the fact that his utterances were of a very general nature - about the atmosphere in the NaMo times. That is rare for a captain. On the spate of lynchings across the country, for example, I can’t recall a single captain speaking out.
What lends credibility to Bajaj’s statement is the fact that he has not been shy of criticising his own. peers. Recently, as the wheels were coming off the auto industry, he urged fellow manufacturers to look within and examine why they have failed to improve/modernise
Defenders like Gurumurthy’s claim industrialists hadnt complained about regimes in the past simply isnt true, although is true that industrialists as a class usyally don’t prefer to do so. They prefer the backroom options-you know what I mean (maybe electoral bonds,for instance!)
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