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Arun Shourie, the disinvestment minister, ridicules market analysts and tells Suveen K. Sinha that a few manipulators control the market.
Q.: Who was part of the bear cartel?
A.: How can I reveal? I have told
them not to reveal. They realised what they were doing was not right. We
should just look at the result.
Q.: Why don't you take them to task?
A.: What purpose will that serve?
Take them to court? The court takes 15 years. One criticism has been: why
intervene when I have faith in the market. But there is no market. Say
I, as middle-class man, save Rs 1 lakh. I depend on advice from my broker,
who is in turn guided by big financial advisors. If everybody follows a
few persons, a few persons don't have to manipulate the markets (and they
can still prosper).
Q.: Was a law violated?
A.: You enter into a fiduciary
relationship and do the opposite. That is not violation of law, but of
an agreement.
Q.: You mean some of the advisors
to the issues were part of the bear cartel?
A.: I am not saying anything more.
(sighs) A very big thing has been prevented.
Q.: Now that the general investors
know that fishy things happen, how to restore their confidence?
A.: In this case, confidence has
been restored. All analysts said it (the market crash) was correction and
profit taking. Now, it (the market) has gone up. That shows the bogusness
of analysts. Just like art and music critics, they are just stringing words
together. The market is non-existent. Analysts are fooling people with
big words.
Q.: You intervened when psu stocks
were being hammered. Who would protect non-government companies?
A.: Everyone should help. Journalists
can help. You should publish their (the bear cartel members') names.
Q.: Tell us the names, we will publish
it.
A.: You can find it on your own.
A determined effort will succeed.
Q.: Why not punish them?
A.: Punishing will lead to collapse
of the market.
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