INDIA SUMMARIZED

Taking a dig at Manmohan Singh for allowing FDI in multi-brand retail and attacking him on being silent on Assam violence, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today said the Prime Minister has altered the definition of Indian democracy to “of the foreigners, by the foreigners and for the foreigners.” “Now onwards pen, pencils, notebooks would not be sold by your neighbourhood shopkeeper but some ‘Gora’(foreigner). So, local traders and retailers will lose employment,” Modi said here while addressing a large gathering at Vivekananda Youth Convention here in Kutch district. “Former US President Abraham Lincoln gave world famous definition of democracy —’of the people, by the people and for the people’–, but our Manmohan Singhji has given us a new definition —’of the foreigners, by the foreigners, for the foreigners’,” he said. He alleged that the decision to allow Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multi brand retail has been taken when there is no level playing field between glob...