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Rajiv Bajaj

Managing Director & CEO, Bajaj Auto Limited

Search every verified Rajiv Bajaj interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. At a May 2026 event marking Bajaj Auto's centenary, Rajiv Bajaj reflected on the company's global expansion over the past 25 years, describing it as "an experience in oneness." He stated that the journey, which began as a business exercise, had helped him "walk his talk" of being the best in whatever one chooses to do, a principle he attributed to his father. Bajaj also noted that the company had developed its own technology and is now the world's third-largest motorcycle maker, the largest three-wheeler maker, and India's top electric vehicle maker by revenue, exporting to 108 countries. In his remarks, Bajaj argued that India's competitiveness in manufacturing value-added engineering products "outshines China's, outperforms Vietnam's, and outruns Thailand's," crediting the scale of the Indian market and the skills of Indian engineers rather than politicians or businesspeople. He also said that the company's global reach had generated jobs and foreign exchange, and that its recent acquisition of KTM motorcycles had confirmed his observations about Indian manufacturing capabilities.

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“When it comes to manufacturing value added engineering products, India's competitiveness outshines China's, outperforms Vietnam's, and outruns Thailand's, and the credit for that in my view goes less to the Indian politician or the Indian business person and more to the sheer scale of the Indian market and the sterling skills of Indian engineers.”

“When it comes to manufacturing value-added engineering products, India's competitiveness outshines China's, outperforms Vietnam's, and outruns Thailand's.”

“when the 50% tariff was imposed, Bajaj Auto absorbed most of that for the export of both KTM and Triumph out of India to the US. A volume for us about 15,000 per year. And let me tell you, despite absorbing most of that 50% increase, our EBITDA on those products was over 20% over our corporate average. You know, that just tells you how competitive India is.”

“I just don't understand, you know, it could not have been more ill-timed. So, really, I have to say this that there's some mantris and some babus that are really brain dead out there.”

“I have never witnessed anything that I could call as policy failure of government but I think it's about to happen with the Maharashtra government EV policy. It is really unfortunate that what is due to us... in terms of the subsidy that was announced which was dispersed up till April 2023 in the last almost 3 years we have received a very tiny fraction of what was due to us and in discussion with the let's say the g”

“I believe subsidies mask reality. Subsidies slow innovation and subsidies cushion inefficiency. So, you know, frankly, in principle, I have to say I'm not for subsidies. I'm glad the subsidy on three-wheelers, electric three-wheelers is gone. I hope it is not going to come back. I believe that it is set to end with electric two-wheelers also on 31st March. I hope that happens. Because I think, you know, that's really”

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