Unequal India | In Conversation With Rajesh Shukla, CEO, PRICE

Anil Padmanabhan    May 23, 2024

By Anil Padmanabhan, Capital Calculus 2.0 | Unequal India | In Conversation With Rajesh Shukla, CEO, PRICE, May 23, 2024

Recent statements by senior members of the Congress party, including former President Rahul Gandhi, have put the spotlight on the problem of inequality in India. Since the claim that inequality has worsened in India in the last decade—also the tenure of the two-term incumbent National Democratic Alliance—has in the middle of a very contentious general election campaign, the comments have turned controversial and acrimonious. 

The resulting noise has turned this into a political slug fest instead of a healthy debate. To be sure, neither is this the first time that the problem of inequality is being flagged, nor is this challenge unique to India.