{"id":15159,"date":"2018-06-25T21:05:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T15:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=15159"},"modified":"2018-07-09T18:14:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T12:44:10","slug":"did-ratan-tata-refuse-to-sell-tata-sumo-to-pakistan-six-year-old-hoax-resurfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/did-ratan-tata-refuse-to-sell-tata-sumo-to-pakistan-six-year-old-hoax-resurfaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Ratan Tata refuse to sell Tata Sumo to Pakistan? Six year old hoax resurfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"

A claim attributed to Ratan Tata that was debunked six years ago<\/a> is circulating on social media once again. The present version of this hoax tries to pit Parsis against Muslims and glorifies the patriotic values of the Parsi community while seemingly denigrating the other. The message claims that Ratan Tata refused to sell Tata Sumo cars to Pakistan despite being requested by former commerce minister in UPA, Anand Sharma, to consider the proposal by Pakistani industrialists. The message also tries to target Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.<\/p>\n

Message:<\/strong>\u00a0“”<\/i>YOU COULD BE SHAMELESS, I AM NOT” ~ Ratan Tata<\/i><\/span>. Few months after 26\/11, Taj group of Hotels owned by TATAs launched their biggest tender ever for remodeling all their Hotels in India and abroad. Some of the Pakistani companies also applied for that tender. To make their bid stronger, two big industrialists from Pakistan visited Bombay House (Head office of <\/i>Tata<\/i><\/span>) in Mumbai without an appointment to meet up with <\/i>Ratan Tata<\/i><\/span> since he was not giving them any prior appointment. They were made to wait at the reception of Bombay house and after a few hours, a message was conveyed to them that <\/i>Ratan Tata<\/i><\/span> is busy and can not meet anyone without a prior appointment. Frustrated, these two Pakistani industrialists went to Delhi and through their High Commission met up a Congress Minister. Then this minister, Anand Sharma immediately called up <\/i>Ratan Tata<\/i><\/span> requesting him to meet up with the two Pakistani Industrialists and consider their tender “ENTHUSIASTICALLY.” <\/i>Ratan Tata<\/i><\/span> replied…”<\/i>You<\/i><\/span> <\/i>could<\/i><\/span> <\/i>be<\/i><\/span> <\/i>shameless,<\/i><\/span> <\/i>I<\/i><\/span> <\/i>am<\/i><\/span> not” & put the phone down. Few months later when Pakistani government placed an order of <\/strong><\/i>Tata<\/i><\/span>Sumos to <\/i>be<\/i><\/span> imported into Pakistan, <\/i>Ratan Tata<\/i><\/span> refused to ship a single vehicle to that country. This is his respect and love for his motherland. He placed the nation above money & business. Something Kejriwal & his likes can learn from him, who are mostly seen appeasing terrorists & separatists to keep their Pakistani Masters happy. Not to forget, <\/i>Ratan Tata<\/i><\/span> is a man of Parsi background that constitutes one of the two Zoroastrian communities of the Indian subcontinent. His community is minuscule in India but every single one of them has made India proud. While <\/i>Tata<\/i><\/span> Parivar is full of Patriotism, we have some so-called minorities who are either busy begging freebies or helping Pakistan plant bombs. And when they are caught, they fake victim-hood & make martyrs out of terrorists. Share so it reaches all the UNDESERVING LOSERS who stay in India but work for their handlers in Pakistan.”\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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Currently, different versions of this message is being shared by many Facebook pages and accounts<\/a>. Alt News also found an article published by India Times<\/a><\/em>, an Internet subsidiary of The Times of India<\/em>\u00a0group on September 11, 2015, ‘8 Reasons Why Ratan Tata Is India’s Coolest Business Tycoon Ever #ProudToBeIndian’. <\/i>The article has attributed a reason calling Ratan Tata, ‘The Patriot<\/em>‘.<\/p>\n

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An editorial published in Meghalaya Times<\/em><\/a> was based on the hoax, titled ‘Ratan Tata claims Politicians could be shameless but not him’<\/em>.\u00a0We could backtrace the present version of the hoax to August 2012 when it was shared by a page called PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

A YouTube video,<\/a>\u00a0titled ‘You clould be shameless…I’m not : TATA’s Answer to Pakistani’s’<\/em> published on July 15, 2016 has received more than 6 lakh views and 10000 ‘likes’. It narrates the same story propagated over the last six years.<\/p>\n