The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday dared Prime Minister Modi to allow the JPC and ED to probe the matter "instead of taking recourse to diversionary tactics.”
Senior TMC MP Sukhendu Shekhar Roy said, “instead of attacking the Opposition by saying that the ED has united them, Modi should better have come to the point raised by the Opposition parties … instead of doing so he side-stepped the issue and dwelt on so many other things which were not matters of immediate concern.” The senior TMC leader said, “Instead of resorting to oratory let the Prime Minister should allow a JPC probe into the Adani matter and make the results public so that it can be considered in right perspective by the 140 crore people that he was fervently referring to.”
The TMC leader had earlier demanded that the Government should impound the passports of top executives of the Adani Group so that they might not flee the country.
Another senior TMC leader JP Majumdar said that “the people had already punished Congress for the scams during the UPA regime that Modi was referring to … it is almost 20 years … now the PM should speak about his own Government.”
Bengal Left leadership too attacked Modi saying, “he is avoiding the Adani issue and resorting to counter attacks because he fears the truth coming out.”
CPI(M) Rajya Sabha MP Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya said “The PM is in trouble because the link between him and the Adanis have come out in the open … now his government has to account for the crony capitalism that it has been promoting in India … the truth will definitely come out.”