What TCS and HCL have to do with American election? Well, let Trump decide
Sep 24, 2016, 18:25 IST
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The US is looking forward to the presidential election in November this year. Running for the poll, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are leaving no stones unturned to woo the voters. And all of a sudden, India is being pulled into the discussion, thanks to the outsourcing issue that has been happening in the US for quite some time now.In an instance to demonstrate how unsympathetic Hillary is towards fellow Americans, team Donald Trump recently accused Hillary of being closer to Indian tech giants HCL and TCS. Trump camp alleges, Hillary is responsible for stealing of jobs from young Americans.
The website that mentioned so is run by Trump's new campaign chief Andrew Breitbart. It recalled Clinton's remarks several years ago at a fundraiser hosted by Rajwant Singh, a prominent Indian-American from Maryland, where she said, "I can certainly run for the Senate seat in Punjab and win easily ," after being introduced by Singh as the "Senator not only from New York but also Punjab."
What the website skipped is the fact that even Republican lawmakers were quite interested to woo Sikh voters at that time.
"Most notably , Clinton has extensive ties to corporations responsible for some of the most egregious anti-American worker labour practices: namely , the India-based Tata Consultancy Services and HCL...Interestingly , both companies have given money to the Clintons either via donations to the Clinton Foundation or paying Bill Clinton to deliver speeches," the Breitbart story noted, saying the firms have "stolen" tens of thousands of US jobs, according to the ET.
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