: RSS-linked magazine targets Amazon, calls it ‘East India Company 2.0’ #IndiaNEWS A magazine associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh has called e-commerce major Amazon “East India Company

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RSS-linked magazine targets Amazon, calls it ‘East India Company 2.0’ #IndiaNEWS
A magazine associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh has called e-commerce major Amazon “East India Company 2.0�, PTI reported. The article criticising Amazon is the cover story of the upcoming edition of RSS-affiliated magazine Panchjanya, out on October 3. On Twitter, Panchjanya Editor Hitesh Shankar shared an image of the cover story featuring Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos.Amazon later issued a statement claiming the company has had a “positive impact on small businesses� in India, NDTV reported.“During the [coronavirus] pandemic, three lakh new sellers joined us... of which 75,000 were local neighbourhood shops from 450+ cities [selling] furniture, stationery, consumer electronics, beauty products, mobile phones, garments, medical products...� the statement said.The statement added that more than 70,000 Indian businesses were exporting their products by using Amazon as a platform.This came weeks after the same magazine had criticised Infosys, a move that the RSS had distanced itself from.The magazine has referred to allegations that legal representatives of Amazon bribed Indian government officials. “What did it [the company] do wrong it needed to bribe,� the article said. “Why do people consider this company a threat to indigenous entrepreneurship, economic freedom and culture?�A whistleblower had alleged that the legal fee Amazon had paid to a counsel for the firm was channeled...Read more

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