Vibrant Gujarat a marketing strategy: Sachin Pilot
New Delhi: Union Minister Sachin Pilot says that the Gujarat leader is capable of taking credit for even the businesses set up by Gujaratis
across the world over the past many decades.
“It (Vibrant Gujarat) is just a marketing gimmick,” Corporate Affairs Minister Pilot told. When asked whether he would ask for an enquiry by the ministry into how many of these announcements have actually materialized into actual investments, Pilot however said, “I am not here to do a witch-hunt on who has done what and not. But, if a complaint comes, I will look into it.”
Pilot, however, flayed the hype created around Modi himself and about the state’s economic prowess, saying that most of these things were orchestrated.
“The marketing, PR machinery and the media blitz, these are all orchestrated. Full credit goes to Modi for organizing the media blitz,” Pilot said.
Noting that Gujarat has been a progressive entrepreneurial state since 1950s, the young Congress leader said there are Gujaratis living who live in Africa and who have done wonders in the business community.
“There are also Gujaratis in Canada and US from the 1950s. Let Modi take credit for that also that all Gujaratis who have built hotels and factories in Africa and all over the world,” Pilot said.
