Rahul Gandhi says arrest Adani, PM protecting him; Congress damaging economy: BJP

The Left parties said the CBI indispensable beryllium directed to instantly record a lawsuit based connected the worldly provided by the prosecution successful the US. “Prime Minister Modi himself had shielded Adani from immoderate enquiry oregon prosecution connected the charges emanating from the Hindenburg expose… The Modi authorities cannot fell down immoderate smokescreen now,” the CPM said.

The TMC said “only a judicial probe volition exposure the truth”.

Addressing a property conference, Rahul Gandhi made it wide that the Congress would rise the contented successful Parliament, signalling that the wintertime league starting Monday could witnesser stormy scenes.

“It is present beauteous wide and established successful America that Mr Adani has breached some American instrumentality and Indian law. He has been indicted successful the United States and I americium wondering wherefore Mr Adani is inactive moving astir arsenic a escaped antheral successful this country. Chief Ministers person been arrested. Jharkhand Chief Minister was arrested. Many, galore radical person been arrested. Mr Adani has seemingly done 1 Rs 2,000 crore scam, aggregate others probably. But helium is scot free. He is moving around. There is nary problem. There is nary investigation,” helium said.

“We person been raising this again and again and again. We person been raising this with the (SEBI chairperson) Madhabi Buch issue. It is simply a vindication of what we person been saying. The Prime Minister is protecting Mr Adani. And the PM is progressive successful corruption with Mr Adani. This has been intelligibly indicated. We are demanding that Adani should beryllium arrested… Today itself… Madhabi Buch, who was his protector, should beryllium removed and an probe initiated against her,” Gandhi alleged.

On whether helium would rise the contented successful Parliament, helium said, “We are raising this issue. It is my work arsenic LoP to rise this issue. The PM is protecting him 100 per cent. This idiosyncratic (Adani) has amassed India’s assets done corruption, this idiosyncratic supports the BJP… each these are established things. We volition support reiterating that.”

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge reiterated the Congress request for a Joint Parliament Committee probe into “every facet of the moving of the Adani Group, the deliberate organization erosion of the SEBI, SECI and authorities bodies, and the deals of Adani Group successful overseas countries.”

BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra sought to region the enactment and the authorities from the Adani Group, saying that truthful acold arsenic the lawsuit against the institution was concerned, it was for the company, and not the BJP, to reply the allegations. “Law volition instrumentality its ain course.”

He accused the Congress of trying to harm Indian markets done propaganda, and sought to cognize wherefore Congress governments successful galore states had welcomed investments by the Adani Group. Addressing a property league astatine the BJP headquarters, Patra dared the Congress to spell to tribunal against the institution alternatively than making accusations done property conferences.

“The substance relates to the statement for merchantability and acquisition of electricity, and the statement with authorities organisation companies. Which are the 4 states mentioned successful the US court? The substance pertains to the clip betwixt July 2021 and February 2022. Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Odisha each had non-NDA governments astatine that time. They had neither our CMs nor ruling parties supported by us. But they had governments of the Congress oregon their allies,” helium said.

“Rahul Gandhi has said helium has nary objection to immoderate of his ex-CMs oregon leaders being interrogated. All right. Let determination beryllium interrogation of Bhupesh Baghel. We person nary problem. You record a case,” helium said. The energy bills of these states, helium said, were not being generated by the Modi authorities but by authorities governments.

He accused Gandhi of having an “international structure” successful US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and billionaire capitalist George Soros. “Your operation wants to dent Indian markets. The Gandhi household and the Congress are incapable to tolerate that we are moving towards being the 3rd largest system of the world. That is wherefore they are attacking the Indian marketplace and trying to marque it vessel to harm the Indian economy. About 2.5-crore tiny investors who had invested successful the share market person had to endure losses today,” helium said.

Patra sought to cognize that if Modi was down Adani, wherefore did Adani put Rs 25,000 crore successful Chhattisgarh erstwhile Baghel was CM, Rs 65,000 crore successful Rajasthan erstwhile Ashok Gehlot was the CM, Rs 35,000 crore successful West Bengal, Rs 60,000 crore successful Andhra Pradesh, Rs 4500 crore successful Tamil Nadu, and promised Rs 1 lakh crore of concern successful Karnataka nether a Congress government.

“On October 19, 2024, Adani Foundation donated Rs 100 crore to Revanth Reddy, Chief Minister of Telangana, for accomplishment uplift. Why did your authorities instrumentality donations from a corrupt man? On January 23, 2024, Revanth Reddy went to the World Economic Forum and the Congress authorities of Telangana signed a Rs 12400-crore MoU with the Adani Group? Is Rahul antithetic from his Chief Ministers? He volition person to reply to this.”

Responding to Gandhi’s assertion that Modi’s credibility has been dented, Patra said the Congress had been trying to decorativeness Modi’s credibility since 2002, but could ne'er dent it.