Indian business leaders on Thursday described Rahul Gandhi’s speech as straight from heart saying he came across as a sincere leader and this can form the basis for future engagement with the industry.
“It was a very good speech. His ideas are brilliant. Industry has to see how it can work with the Government. We should work in unison for greater progress,” said Adi Godrej, president of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), which hosted the conference.
In his speech at the CII annual conference, Gandhi spoke about his vision of empowering women and giving voice to the people of billion-strong nation. During his interaction, he said that questions of his becoming Prime Minister and getting married were just irrelevant.
According to CII president-designate S Gopalakrishnan: “This is his first engagement with the business community and he met the industry's expectation. Veteran industrialist Rahul Bajaj said, “People say he doesn't have any experience and he has not spoken to people. I'm impressed on his frankness and his frankness of ideas. He talked about the work of MPs and MlAs. He rightly said that a team needs a good leader for doing things right.”