CAIT to start campaign against foreign aided e-commerce firms

The Confederation of All India Traders commonly known as CAIT has said that the e-commerce companies that are funded by foreign companies were violating the e-commerce rules and adversely impacting the offline traders of the country while announcing a national campaign to protest against these practices.

The campaign is named as "Halla Bol" and it will start from September 15 and will see participation from 100 trade leaders from across the country.

After the start of the campaign, the CAIT will send communication to all political parties of the country to clarify their stand on e-commerce. The confederation will wait for a reply from the parties and a timely decision will be taken about the role of the traders in the upcoming assembly elections and thereafter the Lok Sabha elections.

CAIT claims that foreign e-commerce companies will adversely affect the country's economy, retail market, e-commerce business, agriculture, and other areas due to which the consolidation of the "nationalist forces had become very important."

The confederation will also reach out to corporates like Tata, Godrej, Reliance, Hindustan Lever, Patanjali, Kishore Biyani Group, Aditya Birla Group etc, – who are conducting their business activities through traders in the country, to fight foreign-funded companies.

In a joint statement, BC Bhartia, National President, and Praveen Khandelwal, Secretary-General said that India's business should remain in India and in the hands of Indians and its benefits should be given to the consumers, traders, and industry of the country.

CAIT also urged the government to implement the rules for e-commerce framed by the government equally to all e-commerce companies, whether domestic or foreign.

According to the traders' association, on September 15, trade organisations across the country would organise a dharna at more than one thousand places in different states of the country. Apart from this, a memorandum will also be given to the chief minister, MPs, and MLAs of each state by September 30.