The message & the medium
On Tuesday, Confederation of All India Traders Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal, who has taken upon himself the task of boycotting all things Chinese, appealed to traders to stop using Zoom, the “Chinese” video- conferencing platform. He asked traders to adopt the “Indian alternative of JioMeet”. However, not everyone is on the same page on this. This includes some within the Sangh Parivar. The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, the trade union arm of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, held a press conference through Zoom on Wednesday to announce week-long protests from July 24 to 30 against the Centre’s privatisation