RSS wants China out of the Country's market So Collects Signatures for Boycott

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After the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) gave a call for a boycott of Chinese goods in daily life and urged people to chant a hymn to ward off the evil of the Chinese, the economic arm of the saffron parivar, Swadeshi Jagaran Manch, has started collecting signatures from Indians to elicit support for shunning Chinese produce.

 According to manch functionaries, the body has so far collected over one crore signatures in favour of a complete boycott of China-made manufactures and plans to corner another 1.5crore signatures in a few days.

 "Indians are coming alive to the real danger that China and its cheap manufactures dumped in India so far pose to the integrity as well as livelihood of the country. So far one crore people have resolved to shun these goods. 

In a sign of how this can hurt China, only a partial boycott of Chinese goods last Diwali hurt the trade by 15 to 20 per cent," said SJM coconvenor Ashwani Mahajan.

Mahajan came out strongly against the economic policy India has assumed towards China. 

"It is strange that we are importing Rs 42,000 crore of goods from a country that is behaving like our enemy. China has invested in several sensitive sectors of India such as telecom, transport and railways," Mahajan said.

 "We have given Chinese contract to supply coach for Mahashtra metro project. We do not approve of this. We have written to the government raising our concerns. Look at Americans: they passed 'Buy American Act' in 1933 that was aimed at giving a fillip to indigenous products and domestic industries."

Chinese companies are getting tenders in sensitive sectors and thus detrimental to India's security," he added. Mahajan went on: "China has been scuttling our efforts at various levels, from the issue of declaring Masood Azhar terrorist to our entry in the Nuclear Suppliers Group. 

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