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By mobilising overseas Indians every time Prime Minister Modi travels abroad, encouraging them to cheer 'Modi! Modi! Modi!', and drawing them into domestic political campaigning in India, the BJP has helped politicise the diaspora
Sir Ibrahim Rahimtoola lobbied for greater fiscal autonomy for India in the Raj years. Sir Purshottamdas Thakurdas resigned from the Legislative Assembly to protest differential duties on British and non-British cotton goods, and co-founded FICCI along with G.D. Birla.
Although Netaji was not around when independent India embarked on its five-year plans in the 1950s, it is obvious that the work of the Planning Committee he co-founded had been the pathfinder.