Edelweiss CEO Radhika Gupta: 'Celebrate a woman in business and you always get this comment...'

Radhika Gupta, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Edelweiss Mutual Fund.

Edelweiss CEO and MD Radhika Gupta on Sunday pointed out the discrimination women entrepreneurs have been facing, especially after the arrest of Chanda Kochhar, former CEO and managing director of ICICI Bank.

Gupta, who was part of a panel discussion on a women's leadership event had on Saturday shared a photo from the programme on Twitter. "Who says business has to be done in black suits? Pink and yellow can do it just as well!" she tweeted.

Responding to this, a Twitter user wrote, "Yes, we saw what happened as a result of doing so #ChandaKochhar."

Yes, we saw what happened as a result of doing so #ChandaKochhar

— Karan (@_imkaran) January 7, 2023

Not taking the comment lightly, Radhika Gupta hit back. "Celebrate a woman in business and you always get this comment," she tweeted. "Why don’t men have the privilege of such comments too? Surely women are not the only ones with a history of mistakes/scams/frauds."

The Edelweiss boss was supported by several other Twitter users.

Because it’s a an age old habit of trying to prove that women are lesser and very few men think of u as equals - irrespective of the well known history of crime perpetrated by men even against women more so than the other way around. Gives them some weird sense of shallow pride. — Dr. Radhika Tonsey (@radzzzzster) January 7, 2023

A 100 nirav modis, mallyas and pnbs… but he remembers only miss kocchar

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— Southindiangirl (@Nainanayak) January 8, 2023

Chanda Kochhar was arrested on charges of cheating and rule violations to award Rs3250 crore loan to Videocon group against which Videocon promoter Venugopal Dhoot invested in NuPower Renewables, a company owned by Chanda Kochhar's husband Deepak Kochhar.