Team News Riveting
New Delhi, February 7
Congress leader and Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the Narendra Modi government over the ongoing Adani row.
Speaking in Lok Sabha over the Motion of Thanks on President’s address, Rahul Gandhi said while during his just concluded ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, people talked about inflation, unemployment and other issues facing them. The President’s address had no mention of ‘berozgaari (unemployment)’.
The Wayanad MP diverted his speech on the Adani issue and alleged that the Modi government tweaked rules to favour industrialist Gautam Adani. “People want to know about Modi-Adani relationship. Rules were overlooked to favour Adani,” Rahul Gandhi said. He linked the massive rise in the business fortunes and personal wealth of businessman Gautam Adani to the Modi government coming to power in 2014, as he launched a sharp attack on the BJP dispensation over the issue.
“From Tamil Nadu, Kerala to Himachal Pradesh we have been listening one name everywhere ‘Adani’. Across the entire country, it’s just ‘Adani’, ‘Adani’, ‘Adani’…people used to ask me that Adani enters any business and never fails. Youth asked us that Adani is now in 8-10 sectors and that how his net worth reached $140 billion from $8 billion from 2014 to 2022,” he went on to add.
The Congress has stepped up the offensive against the government over the Adani-Hindenburg issue and is seeking a discussion in Parliament. The opposition parties have stalled proceedings in both houses of Parliament while seeking a discussion on the issue.
The BJP took a strong exception over the statement of Gandhi and accused him of making baseless, shameless and reckless allegations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “Rahul Gandhi made baseless, shameless and reckless allegations against PM Modi,” Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters outside Parliament.
“The Congress and its leaders were involved in all those big scams which tarnished the image of India,” he added.
