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Modi govt scared of JPC probe into Adani issue, alleges Congress
Addressing the press in Mumbai, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera accused Centre of showing special favour to the Adani group
First India Bureau Mumbai: The Congress has reiterated its demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Adani issue and alleged that the Modi government was scared of this inquiry.
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“The Congress has demanded that the Adani scam be investigated by a JPC. But the Modi government is scared of it. Why is the Modi government afraid of a JPC inquiry into the Adani scam?” Congress spokesperson Pawan
Khera asked, addressing a press conference here on Wednesday.
“Who has invested Rs 20,000 crore in Adani Group of industries?
This investment involves a citizen of China. Who is that person?
Rahul Gandhi had raised this issue so that the people of the country should be informed about it,” he said.
Khera accused the Modi government of showing special favour to the Adani group.
“Adani was given a loan from the SBI (State Bank of India). Prime
Minister Narendra Modi pressured the Sri Lankan government to award power sector contracts in that country to him. Modi lobbied for Adani to get the power supply contract in Bangladesh. LIC
(Life Insurance Corporation) investors were forced to invest their money in Adani’s firm,” the Congress leader claimed. He said by questioning the relationship between Adani and Modi, Rahul Gandhi put the central government on edge.
A large part of Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha speech was expunged.
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge’s question on Adani was also removed from the proceedings of Parliament, Khera said.
The Congress has been persistent in its attack on the government weeks after Adani Group stocks took a beating on the bourses after US short seller Hindenburg Research alleged in a report that the Adani group was “engaged in a brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud”, and used offshore shell companies to inflate stock prices. The group has denied all Hindenburg allegations, calling them “malicious”, “baseless” and a “calculated attack on India”.
