An open letter to Rahul Gandhi

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Dear Mr Rahul Gandhi,

According to newspaper reports, you have recently asked Indian industrialists why we should have to import rakhis and Ganeshas from China.

While many in social media have made light of your remark, i could not be happier that a leading figure from the ruling party has posed this question to India's top industrialists. In my understanding, rakhis and Ganeshas in your question are metaphors for labour-intensive manufactures that began to flow into India from China soon after the import licensing on consumer goods was terminated in 2001.
But with a workforce of almost half billion and significantly lower per-capita income, we should not be outcompeted in labour-intensive manufactures by China in either the domestic or world market.