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SME Times News Bureau | 13 Jan, 2020
Traders across 300 cities of the country would hold protests under the
aegis of the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) during Amazon CEO
Jeff Bezos' India visit next week.
The call for protests come
after the traders' body last week wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi
seeking a meeting with him prior to his meeting with Bezos.
In a
statement, CAIT said: "The forthcoming visit of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to
India is on January 15 and will see huge protests of traders across the
country under the banner of the Confederation of All India Traders
(CAIT) in association with All India Mobile Retailers Association, All
India Consumer Products Distributors Federation and more than 5,000
trade bodies."
The traders will hold 'Halla Bol' protest demonstrations in about 300 cities of different states all over the country, it said
In
its statement, the organisation reiterated that it has requested the
Prime Minister to meet its delegation and said the meeting "will enable
CAIT to apprise the Prime Minister about evil designs of Amazon which
has already destroyed business of lakhs of small traders in the
country".
CAIT National President B.C. Bhartia and Secretary
General Praveen Khandelwal alleged that the visit of Bezos to India is
to build a wrong and false narrative that Amazon is empowering small
traders through its e-commerce portal.
The traders' body further
said the e-commerce major should make public what it has done so far to
empower the existing retailers on their platform, including the details
of the quantum of business done by retailers annually and whether
anyone of them is listed as top 20 sellers during last five years.
It
said that both Amazon and Walmart-led Flipkart are habitual offenders
of policy and law and are convicted several times in various countries
for their anti-trust policies and other allegations.
Traders of
brick and mortar shops have been protesting under the aegis of the CAIT
against what they call "deep" discounts on e-commerce platforms, more
so, during the sales seasons which these platforms organise.
According
to the traders' body, the discounts on the online platforms such as
Amazon and Flipkart are predatory in nature and the government should
ensure price parity in online and offline markets.
CAIT has also been alleging violation of FDI norms by the platforms, which both the e-commerce majors have denied.
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