Rebirth of India: Superior

That day, Shakru was bored at home watching the first part of "Triumph in the Skies", and sighed that he had just finished watching the second part not long before he traveled through time. It was really unpredictable and fickle.

Just as he was sighing about life, Preeti came in and reported: "Boss, someone from the Trade Department sent an invitation letter to invite you to attend a trade fair held at the end of the year." As she said that, she handed over an invitation letter and documents.

For this so-called trade fair invitation letter, Shakru can receive it almost every day. If he attends every one, he will hardly have to do anything else in a day, so he just flips through it casually and then arranges a subordinate to go to support him. However, today, as soon as he opened the invitation letter, his expression immediately became very solemn.

Because the name of this trade fair is "Golden Trade Wind-India China Week 2003", this is the first time that Chinese companies have held activities in India. It is estimated that this is also related to the official visit of Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee to China in June this year. This is the first Indian Prime Minister to visit China in ten years.

Since this matter is related to China, he must go there in person to show his support. So Shakru began to look through the documents of the trade fair in detail. At the end, he suddenly realized that even if this trade fair had no Chinese color, he should go there, because the organizer behind the scenes was the former Finance Minister Manmohan Singh.

Mr. Singh is not a simple person. From 1991 to 1996, he served as the Finance Minister of the Rao government and carried out unprecedented economic reforms, breaking the shackles that bound India's economic growth and putting India's economy on a track of rapid development. He himself is also known as the "Father of India's Economic Reform".

However, Shakru valued him for something else. If he remembered correctly, then in next year's general election, Mr. Singh would win the final victory and become the new Prime Minister. Therefore, you must go to this kind of person's place to show your support and have a good relationship with such a person, which will be of great benefit to your future business and life.

After confirming his schedule, Shakru thought about it and called Mukesh again: "Brother, did the people from the Ministry of Commerce send you an invitation to the trade fair at the end of the year?"

"Uh, wait for me to ask." After two minutes, Mukesh said: "Yes, there is indeed such an invitation." Obviously, this matter was not handled by Mukesh himself, but this is normal. Such small matters are usually handled by secretaries, and Shakru was also received by Preeti.

"Are you going to this trade fair?" Shakru asked.

Mukesh laughed dumbly and said: "Little Shakru, do you think I have time to participate in such boring things now?" Mukesh said this truth, because he is busy with a big thing now, and he has no time and energy to do anything else. This big thing is nothing else, that is, the fight for inheritance.

Reliance Industries, founded by Mukesh's father Dhirubhai Ambani, is the largest private company in India. It not only controls the development direction of national power, oil exploration, finance, biotechnology and telecommunications, but also largely influences the entire Indian economy.

When Dhirubhai died in July 2002, Reliance Industries had become a veritable "business empire" in India, with total assets of $16.8 billion, equivalent to 3.5% of India's GDP, 5% of annual exports, and 30% of the total profits of all private enterprises in India that year. One in four Indian stockholders bought shares of the group.

In 2003, Reliance Industries' oil exploration, petrochemical and other businesses were fully profitable, and its market value nearly doubled compared with 2002. At the same time, it successfully implemented a diversified strategy to enter the mobile communications field, allowing Reliance Telecom to seize 21% of the Indian mobile communications market in less than a year and make a profit that year.

Faced with this legacy of more than 30 billion US dollars, no one would not be jealous, and the most troublesome thing was that Dhirubhai did not leave a word about the distribution of the legacy when he left, so Mukesh and his brother Anil naturally had to start a protracted open and secret struggle.

However, Shakru was very confident that Mukesh would win in the end. First, he knew that Mukesh was the final winner in the previous life. Second, the petrochemical industry, the most important core industry of the Xincheng Group, had been firmly controlled by Mukesh since Dhirubhai became seriously ill. Many large refineries and chemical plants were completed under his personal leadership, so controlling this area basically stabilized the overall situation.

So Shakru advised: "Brother Mukesh, I advise you to go to this trade fair, even if you don't buy anything, just show up and show your support."

"Is there any trick in this trade fair?" Mukesh asked doubtfully.

"There is no trick in this trade fair. The trick is the organizer behind it."

"Organizer? Let me see, Manmohan Singh, it was actually organized by him, but even if it is him, what? He is not the Minister of Finance now." Mukesh said indifferently.

Shakru chuckled and said slowly, "He is indeed not the Minister of Finance now, but he will be the Prime Minister of India soon. Do you think we should give him some face?"

"What? He will soon become the Prime Minister of India? How is this possible? Although next year is the election year, even if the Congress Party wins, the Prime Minister should be the current Chairman Sonia Gandhi. How could it be his turn? What's more, he is a Sikh. There has never been a Sikh Prime Minister, okay?" Mukesh said in shock.

"Just because there was no Sikh Prime Minister before doesn't mean there won't be one in the future. And don't forget that Sonia has Italian ancestry. Just based on this, she can never become Prime Minister. As for why I am so confident in Mr. Lion (Singh means lion in Hindi, and three out of ten Sikhs are named Singh), don't forget my prediction skills." Shakru said.

ps: Sonia Gandhi is a woman with a difficult life. Her mother-in-law, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated in 1984, and her husband, Raj Gandhi, was also assassinated in 1991. After that, the entire Gandhi family relied on her to carry the burden. It was not until her son Rahul Gandhi became the chairman of the Congress Party in 2007 that she was relieved.

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