Alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had during the last nine years “worked only for his friends and helped them by putting public money in their pockets”, the Maharashtra Congress on Friday said that “Modi should show courage” to order an inquiry into the source of Rs 20,000 crore allegedly invested in the Adani group through shell companies.
On a day when the Congress staged protests at different places across the state to demand an inquiry into the source of Rs 20,000 crore allegedly invested in invested in the Adani group through shell companies, Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee President Nana Patole alleged that “thieves” like Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi, Vijay Mallya defrauded people’s money and fled abroad. “For calling Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi thieves, Rahul Gandhi was sentenced by a Surat court for defamation and the very next day the BJP government disqualified him from the Lok Sabha.
All this has been decided by the BJP. Rahul Gandhi was sued for raising his voice against the Modi government, exposing the Modi-Adani corrupt alliance,” Patole said. Apart from Patole, State Congress leaders Balasaheb Thorat, Ashok Chavan, Prithviraj Chavan addressed simultaneous news conferences at Ahmednagar, Parbhani and Pune respectively to demand probe into the money invested in the Advani group of companies through shell companies and to slam the dictatorial regime of the Narenda Modi government.
“The situation in the country is alarming and the question whether there is democracy or not in the country is posed in front of us. Action has been taken against Rahul Gandhi due to political vendetta.
He was not allowed to speak in the Parliament, dissenting voices are suppressed in our democracy. Differences of opinion happen in a democracy, this is a sign of a healthy democracy, but BJP does not allow that to happen, it is going towards the end of democracy,” Leader Balasaheb Thorat said. Talking to media persons in Pune, former Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said: “It is the basic duty of the opposition party is to ask questions to the government, as the Congress leaders were barred from that duty in Parliament, we are trying to provide information with the help of the media.
The Hindenburg report has alleged that Gautam Adani is a big scam, and it is also alleged that Adani expanded the group by giving false information and bringing pressure from the government”.
“Rahul Gandhi raised this question in Parliament. What is relationship between Gautam Adani and Modi? Rahul Gandhi also asked who gave Rs 20,000 crores in Adani group through benami companies.