The ongoing two-year-long trader agitation has cornered e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart, claimed Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) general secretary Praveen Khandelwal. The CAIT leader made the claim in a tweet he posted on his page on the micro-blogging site on Saturday marking two years of the agitation against e-commerce giants that was launched at Delhi’s Ramleela Maidan in 2020.

8th January,2020: Ramlila Ground,New Delhi. @CAITIndia launched nationwide campaign against Amazon & Flipkart against their mal-practices in #ecommerce . 2years struggle has cornered both entities. We need a transparent, free & fair Ecommerce @PMOIndia @PiyushGoyal @AimraIndia pic.twitter.com/bY1eMyjHYr

— Praveen Khandelwal (@praveendel) January 8, 2022CAIT has been butting heads with Amazon, Flipkart, and other e-commerce players for the last few years amid growing competition in India’s retail market. The organization, which consists of eight crore traders and 40,000 trading associations has alleged that the e-commerce giants are employing unethical practices to capture the Indian retail market.

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First Published:Jan 10, 2022 6:16 PM IST