EaseMyTrip founder turns up the heat on rival MakeMyTrip’s board members’ ‘Chinese affiliations’

EaseMyTrip Founder and Chairman Nishant Pitti on Friday turned up the warmth on rival MakeMyTrip over the alleged Chinese ownership of the latter, saying 5 out of its 10 board of administrators have direct ties to China. In a put up on X, he mentioned three of the 4 most strategic board committees in MakeMyTrip “are both led or considerably influenced by administrators with clear Chinese affiliations“.

Whereas MakeMyTrip declined to touch upon Pitti’s newest allegations, it maintained its earlier stance of being an Indian company, absolutely complying with all relevant legal guidelines of the nation and information privateness frameworks.

Pitti in a recent put up on X, previously Twitter, alleged “half of MakeMyTrip’s board – 5 out of 10 administrators have direct ties to China, together with pivotal appointments by Journey.com, an organization with Chinese language possession”.

In his recent put up on X, Pitti additional mentioned, “MakeMyTrip might dismiss this as a “motivated accusation” however when national security is at stake, silence shouldn’t be an possibility”.

Additional, alleging ‘Management Behind Closed Doorways’, he claimed that “3 of the 4 most strategic board committees are both led or considerably influenced by administrators with clear Chinese language affiliations, giving them disproportionate sway over important choices”.

Asserting that ‘Beauty Adjustments Do not Alter Management’, the EaseMyTrip Founder tagged screen-shots of the administrators of MakeMyTrip having alleged Chinese language affiliations within the put up. “The appointment of a brand new director on 14 Might 2025 adjustments little. A single board reshuffle can’t masks the deep-rooted construction of Chinese language-backed affect that continues to form the board and committee dynamics,” Pitti mentioned.

In an earlier put up on Wednesday night, the EaseMyTrip founder had acknowledged, “Indian Armed Forces e-book discounted tickets by way of a platform majorly owned by China, coming into Defence ID, route & date. Our enemies know the place our troopers are flying. Attaching screenshots exposing this loophole – it have to be patched now”.