NEW DELHI: Indian Overseas Congress head Sam Pitroda’s comments that India’s raw talent in the IT sector ended up serving others while the country itself could not leverage it drew sharp criticism from BJP, which called it another instance of the opposition party bashing India.”We have young talent but it is raw. What happened in software industry? We created a lot of talent but it ultimately helped multinationals world over…We could not benefit. We could not create a social media network, a company like Microsoft or even an operating system,” he said in remarks which went viral. “We have used our talent to serve others,” Pitroda said. While the US is the unquestioned leader in AI and China is next but rest of the countries are not anywhere despite making a lot of noise, he said.BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla hit back. “So after the topless act by Congress, now comes chief advisor of Laskhkar-e-Congress – Sam Pitroda,” he said in a reference to the controversial shirtless protest by Youth Congress members at the global AI summit on Friday. He accused Pitroda of lying to bash India. He mentioned operating systems like BOSS Linux, Maya OS and Prime OS. “Unfortunately Congress’ only mission is to run down Bharat with lies,” the BJP functionary said.
