“Not ladte ladte marenge,PM should say marte marte ladenge”(Video)
Bhavnagar, 15 September 2012
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi continued to attack the Congress-led UPA government in centre in general and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in particular. Presented above is the video of part of his speech at Bhavnagar today. Given below are highlighted points.
-The decisions taken yesterday on foreign investments are shocking.
-Who will sell tea, haldi, gehu, chawal, mirchi, kirana? Foreigners!
-They have opened the gates for foreigners in multi-brand retail. Imagine if Chinese made umbrellas are here, will not it affect our local umbrella manufacturers? Employment of their laborers?
-The youths will be jobless.
-Due to centre’s decisions taken yesterday, there’s danger against existence of Small kirana shops.
-PM says ladte ladte marenge, but let me say Pradhan mantriji your bones are not powerful enough to give life while fighting, you will instead fight like a dead man(marte marte ladenge).
-Who are Italian traders that are going to yield benefit from this? The Prime Minister has to answer this.
-Can you imagine the nation is going in which direction? Earlier we used to hear theft of gold, silver, ornaments, but did you ever hear theft of coal? Even begger and poor person will not touch coal.
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I have several questions for NaMo:
1) Why would Indian umbrella makers be not able to compete with Chinese umbrella makers? If Indian umbrella makers offer better quality at right price, thats what people will buy!
2) If Chinese have better quality umbrellas, why should Indian customers be denied opportunity of buying those umbrellas?
3) Kirana stores are family business, stores ownership is passed down in family, so it is very difficult for outsiders to enter this space. If stores like Walmart open up, the entry barrier will vanish and will help youth get jobs which they couldn’t dream of getting in past. Why should they be denied this opportunity?
4) Machines won’t run the stores, people will so why you think youth will become jobless. In fact today if you walk into small sized multi brand stores, you will find more youths as compared to traditional kirana stores.
5) Why should the small kirana stores or small factories be protected forever? This is like reservation where you prevent any serious competition and let only certain section reap all the benefits.
6) In terms of variety of products available in multi brand stores of China and other developed countries, India is nowhere in comparison. Why should Indian consumers be denied an opportunity to have similar lifestyle as their Chinese counterparts?
China has achieved a stage where they can, by using the same labor, make good quality goods. They have invested in skill development since last 3 decades. While we under Congress culture (including such other party rule) were sleeping and only seeing dreams of “in 21st Century, India will be…”, but did nothing toward skill development. Moreover, in case of technological advancement in manufacturing sector also, they have done a lot and that also more indigenously than depending on outsider. Whereas, we have people saying FDI in retail will bring technology which will improve conditions in India… I think how ISRO scientist are dreaming of Moon and Mars when our condition is such that we need “FDI” in 21st centuries to bring technological and strategical advancement in retail market (that also after 60+ years of so-called self rule). Regarding Kirana store, they might be run by families, but they also employ staff who are not from their family. Moreover, the number of Kirana stores (local) that we see are not owned by members from same branch of the families (same caste or community) which were owning Kirana stores before..say 30/40 years. Moreover, the entrepreneurship quality will be wiped from our country men. When 1 Wal-Mart takes on a local area business of 10 local Kirana stores, these 10 families will lose their income (these are not small nuclear families). So, as per u, we don’t need 10 (smaller, local level) ambanis but 1 Wal-Mart which makes our country proud… Oh! how can I forget you are the same people who get jealous of ambanis and tatas saying only few are getting richer… Now in this Wal-mart case, lakhs of families will lose business against few players.., so here u don;t have problem….. Moreover, FDIs will have obligation of fetching produce of 30% only from Indian industries. Now, what about 70%? This definitely will be dump from outside. Will this give boost to Indian manufacturing sector including agriculture? Moreover, our problems are relating to internal supply chain and marketing sector, which needs good management and government support and not FDI. Moreover, farmers will not gain which is a false propaganda. They will purchase raw material in cheaper rates and will sell to us at higher, like chips packet from Lays filled with more air than chips… There is a lot to that can be said and written…
-But never the Gujarat CM said that he will not allow FDI in retail in Gujarat.
@Eternel
Taara ghar vala ne Jhadoo maarvani pun naukri nahi male.
Dahyo tha maa.
Western conuntries ni haalat joine vaat kar. Western countries maa to sarkkar ghar betha thoda ghana paisa ane hospital sabandhi saghvado aapi shakey chey. Aapni aa sarkaar maa to atyar naa sanjogo pun naukri apaavavaana thekaana nathi to FDI pachi desh bhar no loko ne be tunk khavanu and kapapada nu pun thekaanu nahi rahe.
Stupid questions. Chineese Umbrellas are utter rubbish one I bought in USA and gone bad in less than a single monsoon (cost I paid was, as far as I remember, 2 $) while I bought an Umbrella from Mumbai in 2003 which was in great shape in 2006 when I left Israel (where I used it several time for even snowfall). I gave it to another Indian friend and in 2009, He came back to India with that Umbrella. Dont spread blatant lies.
If you want to do testing just buy a Chineese CFL and wait for 3 months and then buy CFL fro Surya, Ajanta or Philips. I have some CFLs from Indian companies which are running since last 3 yrs.
Kariyana or Kirana is not family owned business, anyone can open kariyana store, provision store. Many Sindhis, Patels, even Darbar (Rajputs) have Kirana store in our town. Now talk about family business, say for leather smith (mochi) have you seen Mochi who used to make shoes by hand have lost their job and their shops are closed? Now only shoe shops where we have readymade shoes and chappals from big brands. Have we ever put a thought on what happened to those Mochis who lost their livelyhood under so called globalization and reforms?
Parroting reforms is not so smart thing but implementing reforms as and when required and in coherence with our culture, demography and needs is smart thing. Just because walmart wants to come we are opening our markets.
Eternal .. Answer just one question -. Why there are no Wal-Mart in New York city ? Just do some research.. America was built by building infrastructure (and innovations), not by Wal-Mart.
To Eternal: Rather then asking couple of questions answer only one.
Where the earned money goes ? Will it stay in India ?
This all clear your answers so think asking some short minded questions.
People always have opportunity to buy the quality goods available. Don’t say people dont have quality product now.
Completely agree with Eternal in his comments.
Small and medium sized vendors have had their share of taxheavens, low quality in products as well as cunsumer-relationships.
Big companies will at least be answerable since they have a face, responsible since they have a reputation to protect.
To bring consistency in product quality as well as strong consumer-friendly policy, elephants are very much needed.
If Mr. CM would be at the helm of affairs, I doubt if he would have objected this decision.
-Modi never said that he won’t allow FDI in retail in Gujarat, unlike other state CMs.
Let me add a comment here.
-I had seen some LED manufacturers in India go out of business and shut shops.
-Chinese LEDs and LED lamps selling in India are poor quality whose light deteriorates within days, but the price is around 4 to6 LEDs in 1Rs. Indian LEDs which were average quality and lasted almost a year, cost around 50p per piece. Shops started purchasing chinese LEDs and selling them, but since majority of the LEDs were bad, the shopkeepers searched for alternate suppliers, but to their dismay, the old suppliers had vanished by then. Now all they are doing is importing LEDs fron Taiwan or Thailand or Malaysia or Indonesia and selling.
-Another example, even VIP suitcase manufacturers have started procuring from China and selling in India. Many VIP manufacturing units and Indian spare parts supplying them are out of business and just do labelling or quality tests only. So to compete and stay alive, what these spare part manufacturers do is to make cheap bags and suitcases of very low quality and sell in the street markets.
-This is what happens to the domestic manufacturers.
-We have seen these in the fields of
1)Wodden toys manufacturers of Varanasi who have vanished.
2)Silk weavers in Varanasi and Bangalore.
3)Brass workers of Moradabad.
4)Cane furniture manufacturers.
5)Hand made toffees/ biscuits etc. have all vanished.
-Now do you find anything “Made in USA” or “Made in Japan”?
-All you find is “Made in China” with half-life!
We do not know whether the items sold in retail market are pure or otherwise!Authority is doing nothing to take any action for milavat in every items.
No need of FDI in retail. FDI should be on our conditions and in our choice of fields. It is us who decide on FDI and not the foreign trade honchos and their political clouts. In India most of the fields where FDI was required are already open. Relying on foreign funds to improve economy and mismanaging economy domestically are contradictory activities. First govt should improve upon PDS by plugging corruption, improving infrastructure and uniform facility creation. Govt should bring non-productive expenditure down by 50% in less than a year. Govt thinks if we open our retail sector for foreign players they will invest money and our economy will be back on track but that is futile exercise. In retail foreign companies will earn more than what they will invest that means practically funds will not stay in India and a very few percentage of it may get diverted to infrastructure improvement. Govt has asked only 30% compulsory sell of Indian goods, that means our markets will be flooded by chineese, Thai, Malayasian and Korean goods.
modi ka natak hai aey sab, exploting the poor for vote . modi has destroyed the secular fabric of this great nation. People of gujarat shall defeat him in this Election. The Warmth, Freindly nature of Gujarati people , mutual love and affection among all communuties are foundation stone of this great nation.
Thanks all for your comments. Here are my responses.
First of all, opposing any competition is like encouraging reservation that we have in education system and jobs. Through reservations, under the reason of helping certain disadvantaged communities, if you effectively eliminate competition for them. Similarly, by opposing FDI in retail sector, you are treating kirana stores as reserved category.
1) HP – Entreprenuer quality will be wiped out
Entreprenuership is expected to bring innovation. What kind of innovation kirana stores have brought in their way of functioning in past decade?
2) HP – Walmart will wipe out all kirana stores
This is false, FDI in multi brand retail is applicable only in cities with population greater than 10 lakh, not in villages. 70% of India lives in villages. Even today we have stores like Big Bazaar in Ahmedabad, how many kirana stores got closed due to these stores? There are so many shopping malls in Ahmedabad, so how many ready made clothe stores have ran out of business?
3) Jadu – Chinese products are inferior in quality
Then this is good news, people will not buy umbrellas from Walmart but will buy it from local Indian stores. So whats the issue here?
4) Someone – Why no Walmarts in New York
NY doesn’t have Walmart, but has Kmart, Duanne Reade, Dollar Store, etc. In USA, Walmart is only one of the multi brand retail store. As a result of strong competition, customers have benefitted due to aggressive pricing. These stores have brought innovation by identifying ways to cut costs e.g. Walmart has terrific zero inventory management model and heavily uses RFID technology.
5) Raj – Where earned money goes?
Today if you step into a Kirana store, the owner will ask if you want “kachu” or “paku” bill. As soon as you say “kachu”, that entry doesn’t go into the billbook. You and owner save some money, which is essentially black money and government loss VAT. Walmart won’t be able to play that trick so income from VAT will increase. Also, Walmart and Bharti have a tie up, Bharti is not going to donate its income to USA.
6) San – Domestic companies will run out of business
If domestic company is not able to cut costs, provide quality products and provide better customer service, then obviously it will go out of business. In the era of globalization, for the same logic India has been beneficiary as well. Infosys, TCS, Wipro etc run IT of US and Europe. Lot of call center jobs have moved to India.
7) General Comment – Indian consumers
Were you happy in the era of Ambasador/Fiat, BSNL only which took months to install phone lines, Bajaj – only scooter option in market, Videocon only high end TV in market or now when you have lot more options? We have more and better options due to increased competition. As long as we supress competition, we will have to remain satisfied with below par products.
Lastly, it is on individual states to decide whether they want to allow FDI in their state or not. Lets stay Gujarat doesn’t and Maharashtra does. We will have to stay prepared if after 4-5 years Maharashtra achieves lot of benefits and we don’t. In that case, we won’t have anyone else to blame but ourselves.
To all those who think fdi allowance will flood Indian market with foreign products – they are totally mislead. Indian market already allows lot of international brands and imports already, and present law does not aim to change much into it.
It is unfair to blame walmart (or any other retail chain) for all bad things heard about it. No matter what, whatever urban mall culture and system we see nowadays through Reliance retail and other stores, walmart is root ancestor of all of them. It has to be credited with all good systems and experience we are seeing in retail sector.
What present decision will do is it will allow distribution (which exactly retail sector stands for) to foreigners.
Foreign chains will bring their own systems of market purchase, distribution, supply, billing and post-sales-support which will consistency into consumer experience. This is exactly the thing which is lacking in Indian market, that’s why we see so much chaos in rates of essential goods. Result? Uncontrolled inflation.
As everyone assumes, this will also provide stiff competition to middlemen who are sucking blood and sweat of farmers and peasants nowadays. Agreed that big bullies will have their own bloodsucking ways, but they still have a name and brand to protect.
We have heard bad things about Walmart because they get sued everytime some malpractice happens by them in developed countries like USA – and they get punished too. Here, we don’t have stronger law-enforcement in favour of consumer.
Even if we had, it is not effective to chase every wrongdoer in such a distributed field. If Govt (or any of its appointed Grahak suraksha committee) aims to do it, none of these small shopkeepers would even survive with their 10X10 shop. Allowance of fdi in retail is to clusturize this retail field so it is easy and effective to target wrongdoers (at least in theory).
The question is not to say Yes or NO to fdi in retail.
The question is how to form consumer friendly laws, which we don’t have yet, but we need to work on them soon. Such laws can be easily enforced on huge firms rather than low-key “dalals” and “market mafiyas”. Reason? They have international brand, money, power, and most of all – capability to incorporate consistent system.
Once strong law-enforcement is in place for some years, honest small players will also learn and adept to the system, and will automatically emerge to provide healthy competition to big malls.
Not to mention, some of the benefits of organized retail.
I am not talking about foreign retail – but organized retail which, if properly implemented, will bring lot of progress:
- Saving in space – just look at how much market space is occupied by independent vendors. Their individual space being awkward and constricted, consumer does not even get to see the product before buying.
- Individual attention – malls make it possible to let the buyer and the product talk to each other, without any middleman. Any learned person will realize the benefits of this thing. No need to shout for attention, no long queues (except for billing, off course)
- Traffic Parking Issues mitigated / resolved. All malls must be enforced to provide ample parking space, or should not be allowed at all. Consider the benefit: Every city and town will automatically grow at least 40% in size, without any addition of rural / agricultural land!
- As already mentioned, consumer complaints can be escalated to highest levels when fighting with biggies. Since they have rep to protect, they will listen. On the other hand, consumer will get his hands dirty fighting with a street vendor.
- Possibility of online purchase – benefits self-explanatory?
- The only disadvantage I see is “loss of employment” – well this is highly sensitive yet subjective issue. What do we consider as employment? Are all the vendors who own their family shop since generations can be called employed? Did they earn it? Do they enhance the consumer experience in any way? In today’s time of competition and constant skill upgradation, do they stand on par? I highly doubt. Just like all other professions where people are pushed hard to enhance the overall consumer experience, why should retail be left out? Look around: who is not upgrading themselves: bankers, teachers, engineers, accountants – all of them to satisfy their / their company’s customers.
If a large pool (yes, large pool, that’s why so much bruhaha from opposition) of population just wants to sit tight on a get-and-sell-and-eat-without-paying-taxes sort of business, that’s by all means definition of pure lethargy – our nation can’t afford this at all, especially at this point.
My point? Employment for shop owners, vendors?
The hard buck’s here:
Get out of your home and get yourself employed if you are qualified, you kick-ass street vendors! You guys just had too much fun sitting on your forefather’s hard-earned place in the market – now it’s time for you to prove yourself, or settle somewhere else. The government is simply telling you to innovate, not join the military or pay the unpaid taxes you evaded so far. If you are fit, you will definitely survive. If you are not, the nation definitely will.