Amitabh Bachchan: Traders angry with Big B over Flipkart advertisement, filed complaint with CCPA demanding action

Amitabh Bachchan: Traders angry with Big B over Flipkart advertisement, filed complaint with CCPA demanding action

Amitabh Bachchan Flipkart Ad: Bollywood’s Shahenshah Amitabh Bachchan is embroiled in controversy regarding an advertisement made for the online retail portal Flickpart in view of the festive season and the Traders Association has expressed strong objection to his advertisement. of. Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), strongly criticizing Big B and Flipkart regarding this advertisement, has also filed a complaint with Nidhi Khare, Chairperson of the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) of the Consumer Ministry. 

< p style="text-align: justify;">Confederation of All India Traders has criticized Amitabh Bachchan for this advertisement of Flipkart and said that this advertisement is very misleading. CAT has demanded action against Bigby from the Central Consumer Protection Authority under Section 2 (47) of the Consumer Protection Act. CAT’s National General Secretary Praveen Khandelwal has said in the complaint filed in CCPA that under Section 2(47) Flipkart has misled the public about the mobile price through Amitabh Bachchan (endorser). 

< p style="text-align: justify;">He told that it has been said in the advertisement that the merchants of offline stores cannot give the mobile at the price at which Flipkart can give it. Calling it a big insult to the businessmen of the country, he said that it is against the rules of the government’s guidelines for prevention of misleading advertisements.  
 
CAT has demanded the Central Consumer Protection Authority to immediately ban this advertisement so that the offline retail traders of the country can be saved from the loss caused by the advertisement. Confederation of All India Traders has requested CCPA to impose penalty on Flipkart and Amitabh Bachchan.  

CAT said that Amitabh Bachchan has misled people by supporting Flipkart’s misleading claim that deals and discounts on mobile phones are not available in offline stores and are available only on Flipkart. Praveen Khandelwal said that the entire business community is very angry with Amitabh Bachchan for his advertisement. 

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