Rahul Gandhi takes on PM Modi over Adani issue in Parliament

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi questioned PM Modi on Tuesday in Lok Sabha while showing a photograph of the Prime Minister with businessman Gautam Adani.

“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,” Rahul Gandhi said in Lok Sabha.

Gandhi also questioned how Adani’s net worth increased from USD 8 billion to USD 140 billion between 2014 and 2022. “Youth asked us that Adani is now in 8-10 sectors & that how his net worth reached $140 billion from $8 billion from 2014 to 2022,” he said.

“Adani has zero experience in the defence sector. Yesterday, PM Modi said at HAL that we hurled the wrong allegations. But in reality, HAL’s contract of 126 aircrafts went to Anil Ambani,” the Congress leader said.

“This rule was changed and Adani was given six airports. After that India’s most profitable airport ‘Mumbai Airport’ was hijacked from GVK using agencies like CBI, ED and was given to Adani by Govt of India,” he added.

The Congress MP alleged that ther is a questionable lin between the Prime Minister and Adani. He said, “Earlier the Prime Minister used to travel with Adani in his aircraft, now it is the opposite.”

Union Minister countered the statements and said that baseless allegations have been made against the Prime Minister and that Rahul Gandhi must apologise for this. “Which rule was changed to facilitate whom?” BJP asked.

Gandhi also chastised the government for the ‘Agnipath’ scheme, which he claimed was imposed on the Army by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Ministry of Home Affairs. Gandhi said, “On Agniveers, senior officers told us that it seems that the idea came from the RSS and was thrust on the Army. They said we are training 1000s in weapons and then soon after, they will become civilians amid high unemployment. The officers told me that Ajit Doval is the man behind this idea.”

“How is it that the Agniveer yojana was mentioned only once in the President’s speech? Unemployment, inflation, there was no word of that in the address. So all the issues that people told me about during the yatra, we didn’t hear in the President’s address”, he added.