India Decides To Open Up Huge Retail Sector To Foreign Companies

Samajvadi Party leader Mulayum Singh Yadav (C) and his party lawmakers talk to media before the voting on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in New Delhi, India, Dec. 5, 2012. India’s ruling Congress Party-led coalition government won a crucial vote on Wednesday in favor of its decision to open up the country’s huge retail sector to foreign big-box companies like Wal-Mart, a move that its opponents said will crush small shop owners and farmers. <Xinhua/Partha Sarkar>