12-05-2011, 12:42 AM
[quote name='Capt M Kumar' date='03 December 2011 - 07:26 PM' timestamp='1322920115' post='113931']
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india...970559.cms
KOLKATA: The central government has decided to keep on hold the decision to allow 51% foreign equity in retail till a consensus emerged on the issue, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday after talking to union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee.
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There are a few things that have to be kept in mind. First, in this session of parliament what we all knew was that the BJP is to target PC to highlight his corruption just as the Congress targetted George Fernandez during the NDA rule. The kept press was insisting that the BJP is trying to waste the parliament by not allowing to transact any business. Second, no one had an inkling that the FDI in retail is to be introduced in the current session. Third, the parliament got paralyzed not by the BJP but by the Congress party for the sole purpose of thwarting BJP's attempt to target PC and they truly succeeded! As much as the idea of FDI in retail was not mooted before the parliament's meet and there was no grave pressure from the western countries either to enter into Indian retail, postponing consideration of it to another parliamentary session wasn't difficult at all. After all it exhibited to the politicians that the UPA is in tact!
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india...970559.cms
KOLKATA: The central government has decided to keep on hold the decision to allow 51% foreign equity in retail till a consensus emerged on the issue, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday after talking to union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee.
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There are a few things that have to be kept in mind. First, in this session of parliament what we all knew was that the BJP is to target PC to highlight his corruption just as the Congress targetted George Fernandez during the NDA rule. The kept press was insisting that the BJP is trying to waste the parliament by not allowing to transact any business. Second, no one had an inkling that the FDI in retail is to be introduced in the current session. Third, the parliament got paralyzed not by the BJP but by the Congress party for the sole purpose of thwarting BJP's attempt to target PC and they truly succeeded! As much as the idea of FDI in retail was not mooted before the parliament's meet and there was no grave pressure from the western countries either to enter into Indian retail, postponing consideration of it to another parliamentary session wasn't difficult at all. After all it exhibited to the politicians that the UPA is in tact!