Nagpur – In view of some scary incidents in the country’s e-commerce business in the recent past and steered by US giant Amazon, has facilitated the sale of marijuana illegally through its portal, banned chemicals in making bombs and now the incident of selling poison through e-commerce portal of Amazon has shocked the Country and making a strong protest against such activities of the Amazon, the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) today held a fierce protest in more than 1200 cities of more than 500 districts of different states of the country. The protestors demonstrated the anger and resentment of the trading community by holding dharna and demonstration and warned Amazon that either they should make their business model according to the law and rules, otherwise prepare to tie their sack bed from India. Now the violation of laws and rules in e-commerce business will not be tolerated! CAIT has said that if no concrete action is taken immediately in this matter, then the traders of the country will organise a *Bharat Vyapar Bandh * to raise their voice. The CAIT also said that Amazon love & affection towards the sale of marijuana is evident from the fact that it has asked the US Government to legalise the sale of marijuana.
CAIT has demanded that the business model of Amazon and other e-commerce companies should be investigated in a time-bound manner, while like the arrest of Aryan Khan in a drug case, the Amazon officials should also be arrested in the same way and a sedition case should be registered against Amazon for facilitating the sale of chemicals in the Pulwama attack. CAIT has also said that since this issue has taken an inter-state shape, the Union Government should depute its agencies to investigate the case in a time bound period and the guilty persons should be punished as per the law and till then the operations of Amazon portal should be kept suspended.
CAIT National President Shri B C Bhartia and Secretary General Shri Praveen Khandelwal said that according to the information received yesterday, a person in Indore city of Madhya Pradesh lodged a complaint against Amazon to the Indore Collector in MP stating that his son had 3 month ago ordered poison through Amazon which was made available he committed suicide. Prior to that the MP Police seized 21 kg and 17 kg of marijuana through two different operations whereas on the information of MP Police, the Vishakhapatnam police has also seized 48 kg of marijuana facilitated by a sale through Amazon portal. It is very surprising that in 2019, through Amazon’s portal, the sale of the chemical of the bombs used in the Pulwama terror attack, including the banned chemical, was also facilitated through Amazon’s e-commerce portal but so far no action has been taken against Amazon officials.
Mr Bhartia and Mr Khandelwal said that illegal activities are going on on such a large scale but till now everyone is sleeping which poses a big question on the functioning of the Governments and the administrative system.It appears that for the mighty and the big companies is different and for an ordinary people, the law is different. These companies are having some sort of protection from the political fraternity.
Mr. Bhartia & Mr. Khandelwal said that these incidents are not new as the CAIT and others have been making complaints against the misdeeds of big e-commerce companies since 2016 but no concrete action has been taken so far. It is highly regrettable that this sensitive issue has been in the headlines since last one week but no statement has come from the Central Government or State Governments except Madhya Pradesh Government though the retail trade falls under the domain of State Governments.
There is tremendous anger and resentment among the traders of the country regarding this discrimination and if the government does not act now and prompt action is not taken, then the traders of the traders will be forced to call for a nig nationwide movement.
On Team CAIT Nagpur observed Dharna the Central Avenue. The persons prominently present were Chairman Gopal Agrawal, President Kishore Dharashivkar, Vinod Gupta, Swadeshi Jagaran Manch Dhananjay Bhide, Shirish Tare, Purushottam Gurao, Rajkumar Gupta, Dyaneshwar Rakshak, Madhusudan Trivedi, Satish Bang, Jiya Shaikh, Jaykishan Lalwani, Deepa Pachori, Govind Patel, Farooque Akbani, Jyoti Awasthi, Girish Liladiya, Vasant Kumbhare, Smita Bahade, Stuti Umaredkar etc.
