FDI hard sell

November 28, 2011 14:12

While on FDI, read the Indian Express editorial on the issue:

The decision to allow greater foreign direct investment in retail has reverberated across the political spectrum -- but instead of analysing its effects on farmers, consumers, workers and the economy in general, most major parties have simply played to their own limited agenda.

The Left laid out a rote statement on the monopolisation of the retail sector by MNCs; Mayawati accused Rahul Gandhi's 'foreign friends' of benefiting from the decision;

Uma Bharti threatened to torch any Walmart store that dares to show up; and the BJP, as a whole, condemned it as an anti-people action.

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