‘If Rahul Gandhi has guts, he must ask Sharad Pawar about his meeting with Gautam Adani’: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma
On Wednesday, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma challenged Congress’ chief and former MP Rahul Gandhi to raise questions on NCP Supremo Sharad Pawar and Business tycoon Gautam Adani’s relations. He requested if Gandhi, who tweeted about him being mates with Adani, had the guts to question Sharad Pawar over his friendship with the businessman.
The Assam CM was speaking on the third model of the Republic Summit 2023 in New Delhi. Recalling Gandhi’s tweet throughout which he had alleged that Sarma was mates with Adani, the Assam CM said, “So, these people do politics of convenience. You tweeted about Adani and BJP but when Gautam Adani sits at Sharad’s house for two-three hours, then why did Gandhi don’t tweet about it?”
“Rahul Gandhi tweeted that we are Gautam Adani’s friends. If it was possible, then I would have considered myself lucky. I don’t know him but unfortunately, North East people would take time to reach Adani, Ambani, and TATA. We are trying to reach there but does Rahul have the guts to tweet about Sharad Pawar and his friendship with Adani, ‘Pawar ji, what are your relations with Adani?’” he contemplated.
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On April 9, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had said that he would switch to courtroom docket in direction of former MP Rahul Gandhi over his present ‘Adani’ tweet linking some ex-Congress leaders, along with Sarma, with the Adani Group.
“They hide the truth, that’s why they mislead everyday! The question remains the same – who has ₹20,000 crore benami money in Adani’s companies?” the Congress chief had tweeted. Additionally, he acknowledged that Sarma had financial stakes inside the Gautam Adani-led enterprise, along with Ghulam Nabi Azad, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kiran Reddy, and Anil Antony.
It was our decency to have under no circumstances requested you, on the place have you ever ever hid the proceeds of crime from the Bofors and National Herald Scams.
And the best way you allowed Ottavio
Quattrocchi to flee the clutches of Indian justice a variety of cases .
Any means we’re going to meet inside the Court of Law https://t.co/a9RGErUN1A
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) April 8, 2023
The Assam CM then had slammed Gandhi by saying, “It was our decency to have never asked you, on where have you concealed the proceeds of crime from the Bofors and National Herald Scams. And how you allowed Ottavio Quattrocchi to escape the clutches of Indian justice multiple times. Anyway, we will meet in the Court of Law.”
On April 20, Industrialist Gautam Adani met Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar at his Mumbai residence ‘Silver Oak’ and the meeting lasted for spherical 2 hours. The said meeting had change right into a chat of the town as a result of it stood amid the extraordinary speculation over Sharad Pawar’s nephew Ajit Pawar changing into a member of fingers with the BJP.
The meeting moreover adopted the episode throughout which the NCP supremo had defended Adani over the Hindenburg report controversy, though the Congress and the other opposition occasions continued to assault the businessman.
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi inside the parliament in the midst of the funds session questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s relationship with Gautam Adani after the Hindenburg report alleged that the Indian giant had participated in a clear stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme over a few years.
During the funds dialogue, the opposition urged to type a joint parliamentary committee to look into the accusations made in direction of Adani. The session accomplished on April 6, nonetheless the following day, Pawar suggested Gautam Adani-owned NDTV in an interview that the demand for a JPC was impractical because of the Supreme Court was nonetheless listening to the matter.
Pawar’s NCP is in a coalition with the Congress and Uddhav Thackeray’s Sena in Maharashtra. While Pawar defended Adani over the Hindenburg report, Rahul Gandhi and Uddhav Thackeray keep company over their demand for a JPC probe.
