Rahul Gandhi
Indian politician of the Indian National Congress; Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.
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Their wordsI have doubted the fairness of Indian elections, not every time, not everywhere, but often enough. I am not talking of small-scale cheating, but of industrial-scale rigging involving the capture of our national institutions.
↗Match-fixing Maharashtraindianexpress.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe decision to place a cabinet minister instead of the Chief Justice on the selection committee does not pass the smell test.
↗Match-fixing Maharashtraindianexpress.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Voter rolls and polling-station CCTV footage should be open to scrutiny, not locked away.
Their wordsVoter rolls and CCTV footage are tools to be used to strengthen democracy, not ornaments to be locked up while democracy is violated.
↗Match-fixing Maharashtraindianexpress.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 7 months earlier
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Their wordsThe original East India Company wound up over 150 years ago, but the raw fear it then generated is back. A new breed of monopolists has taken its place.
↗Match-fixing monopoly vs fairplay business — time to choose freedom over fearindianexpress.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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India's largest business groups compete by controlling the state, not by competing as companies.
Their wordsYou know that describing these oligarchic groups as businesses is misleading. When you compete with them, you are not competing with a company, you are fighting the machinery of the Indian state.
↗Match-fixing monopoly vs fairplay business — time to choose freedom over fearindianexpress.com 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsThe government cannot be allowed to support one business at the expense of all others, much less support benami equations in the business system. Government agencies are not weapons to be used to attack and intimidate businesses.
↗Match-fixing monopoly vs fairplay business — time to choose freedom over fearindianexpress.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Indian banks should lend to fair-playing businesses instead of the top 100 well-connected borrowers.
Their wordsOur banks should overcome their fascination for the top 100 well-connected borrowers with their attendant NPAs and be made to discover the profit pools in lending and supporting the play-fair businesses.
↗Match-fixing monopoly vs fairplay business — time to choose freedom over fearindianexpress.com 4th of 4 in this piece
- 13 months earlier
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Their wordsTo call Hinduism a set of cultural norms is to misunderstand it. To bind it to a particular nation or geography is to limit it.