Several opposition party leaders on Tuesday held a protest in the corridors of Parliament House and raised slogans demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Adani issue. They also hung a banner that read “We want JPC” from the first floor of the Parliament building.
TMC MPs held a separate protest in the Parliament complex and demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi break his silence on the Adani issue. Accusing the government of helping businessman Gautam Adani by not ordering a probe into allegations of fraud leveled against his group, the party demanded that Adani be arrested.
Leaders of opposition parties had earlier met in the Parliament complex and decided to press for a JPC probe into the Adani issue. Leaders of opposition parties, including the Congress, DMK, RJD, CPI-M, CPI, NCP, Shiv Sena (UBT), JDU, JMM, IUML, AAP, and MDMK, attended the meeting in the chamber of Leader of the Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge.
Both houses of Parliament were adjourned until 2 p.m. Tuesday amid the uproar over the Adani issue and demands by members of the ruling party that Rahul Gandhi apologize for his remarks on democracy. “This morning, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, @kharge ji, was given permission to speak by the Chairman. He got up to do so but was not allowed by sloganeering BJP MPs. The chairman then adjourned RS. How can the logjam be broken if the Modi government behaves like this?” AICC general secretary Jairam Ramesh said on Twitter after the House was adjourned.
The opposition parties have been demanding a JPC probe into the Adani Group issue, saying only a JPC can bring out the truth in the matter, after a US-based Hindenburg Research report made allegations of financial irregularities and stock manipulation by the Adani Group.
