New Delhi: With increased hostility at border with China, RSS-backed Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has threatened to intensify its boycott campaign against Chinese products to see that by Diwali “not a single Chinese product will be purchased or sold in the Indian markets’’.
In an interview in RSS mouthpiece Organiser, SJM claimed that due to its pressure Modi government imposed steep 18 per cent anti-dumping duty on Chinese steel and barred them from bidding in “power, steel, railways, plastic industries”. Organiser in a separate article has called on the people to boycott Chinese products as imports have resulted in closure of companies in India leading to mass employment.
“China is engaged in a fierce inimical hostilities with Bharat. Yet, we have been bolstering the Chinese economy by purchasing Chinese products, worth more than 4-5 lakh crores a year, leading to industrial closures, large scale unemployment and wide trade deficit for the country, ranging between $45 to $52 billion a year in last 3 years,” said the article published in the magazine.
SJM national vice-president and also head of the Rashtriya Swadeshi Suraksha Abhiyan, Satish Kumar in the interview said that the organisation has collected more than 87 lakh signatures from the people who have taken a pledge for boycotting Chinese goods.
“The Abhiyan is getting momentum. They are burning Chinese goods publicly. Demonstrations are being organised all over the country. We are on the right track. I hope, by this Diwali entire Bharat will be aware of Chinese nefarious designs and not a single rupee Chinese product will be purchased or sold in the Indian markets,” he said.
