Eminent industrialist and former chairman of the Bajaj group, Rahul Bajaj, who put Indian industry on the world map and was known for his outspokenness, died on Saturday due to age-related illness, according to a group official.
Bajaj was starkly different from his usually diplomatic peers with his ability to call a spade a spade, even if it meant ruffling feathers in the government.
'Hamara Bajaj' was the iconic jingle that resonated with the aspirations of the middle class in a pre-liberalised India. And the man behind that brand was one of the biggest and brave industrialists - Rahul Bajaj. Straightforward and outspoken, Bajaj not just had the guts to create a two and three-wheeler brand during permit raj but also had the courage that few industrialists