CAIT supports call to boycott Chinese products

New Delhi, May 31

The traders’ body, Confederation of All-India Traders (CAIT), on Sunday, expressed solidarity with Ladakh-based educational reformer and visionary Sonam Wangchuk’s appeal to boycott Chinese goods.

Amid tensions between India and China, Wangchuk, the man who inspired the Bollywood blockbuster “3 Idiots”, has appealed and asked Indians to boycott all Chinese companies.

In a tweet, engineer-turned-educational reformer asked people to boycott all Chinese products to stop Beijing’s “bullying” in Ladakh and liberate 1.4 billion bonded labourers in the country.

The CAIT, which claims to represent seven crore traders, said it had identified about 3,000 categories of heavily-imported Chinese products “which must immediately be replaced by Indian products as good quality Indian replacements are available for such products”.

The CAIT secretary-general, Praveen Khandelwal, said it would educate traders across the country to stop importing as well as selling these products, and more products would soon be verified and added to the list.

The traders’ body said: “The whole country understands the importance of hurting China economically and therefore we wholeheartedly welcome this great initiative and will stand shoulder to shoulder with Sonam Wangchuk.”

However, the CAIT has also appealed to Indian manufacturers to “get their act together” and gear up to shoulder the responsibility.

“The role of Indian manufacturers is very significant to successfully run this campaign because at no point of time should there be any shortage of products in the market and the consumers of India should not suffer due to such scarcity,” the traders’ body said. PTI