adminFaced with a sharply slowing economy and ballooning budget deficit, the ruling Congress party vice-president told business leaders he wanted to forge a long-term partnership with them to help the poor and release the nation’s “beehive” energies.
“This country is only going to move forward if we all stand together,” Gandhi (42) told the annual meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry in a sometimes rambling address.
Gandhi, one of a string of big guns Congress wheeled out at the meeting to woo the business community before 2014 polls, said “inclusive growth is win-win for everybody”.
“We have to carry the poor and weak with us,” he added.
In his first speech to a major corporate audience, the media-shy leader talked of the need for better education, infrastructure and political responses, but was short on policy detail and gave no hints about his own ambitions.
He said that instead of the usual references to India as a slow-moving elephant, a far more apt comparison would be to a complex beehive.
Such complexity, he said, gave India the edge internationally and over its Asian rival China.
“India is complex. China is simple. And that is why India can’t give simple answers when the West and other investors demand them,” he said. – AFP.
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