Shooting the messenger

On Friday, at the annual meeting of a chamber of commerce in New Delhi, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee spoke sharply of what he implied was Indian industry's unhelpful attitude. Complaining about government inaction was getting to be too much, he said: "If we have problems, it is for us to solve them. Merely reiterating the distressed condition is not going to help us.&" This came a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that "negative comments&" from corporate India "added to the uncertainty and emboldened those who have no stake in our economic growth&". It is true that India Inc, normally quiescent in the face of misgovernance, has spoken out more boldly of late.

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