New Delhi: Questioning the allocation of contracts for airports to the Adani group, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday alleged that the billionaire industrialist benefited from the central authorities’s “magic” and asserted that he was not towards companies however the creation of monopolies.
In a five-minute video titled ‘Mitr-kaal’ launched on his social media accounts, Gandhi stated his remarks in Parliament on the “fact” in regards to the businessman had been expunged and faraway from the data.
“The magic of the ‘fakir’ – took the airport out of his bag and handed it over in Adani’s fingers,” Gandhi stated in a tweet in Hindi.
“I talked the reality in regards to the relationship between Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Adani and the way India’s wealth was being ‘looted’. However all my remarks and the reality had been faraway from the data of Parliament … my remarks had been expunged,” he alleged within the video.
‘फ़क़ीर’ का जादू – झोले से एयरपोर्ट निकाला, अडानी के कब्ज़े में डाला!https://t.co/zuRqi2WJ0g pic.twitter.com/k3IpSFXHjv
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) February 20, 2023
“This story is in regards to the ‘kabza-raaj’ (management) throughout ‘Mitr-kaal’. Management over airports, management over ports, roads and defence forces, management over the media, coal and power and total over the federal government of India…,” he stated, claiming that the media didn’t communicate on this and the prime minister didn’t reply to the questions posed by him.
“Talking the reality and dealing with it’s our nation’s historical past,” he stated.
Rahul Gandhi and his Congress occasion have been attacking the prime minister and the federal government over the expansion of the Adani group throughout the BJP rule and have claimed that that is occurring as a result of businessman’s proximity to the occasion and its management.
The BJP had slammed the allegations as “reckless and baseless” and reminded the opposition occasion that there have been large scams when the Congress-led UPA was in energy that tarnished the picture of the nation.
Whilst he focused the Adani group, Rahul Gandhi on Monday stated he was not towards companies and claimed he was “pro-business”.
“However I’m towards the creation of monopolies and I’m towards ‘jadu’ (magic). What ‘jadu’? From 609 to 2 (richest people) and the ‘jadu’ of 4 to 14 (sectors) and the magic of zero to 6 (airports). It’s stated that everybody doesn’t get every little thing one needs, however that’s not relevant to the prime minister’s ‘buddy’,” he stated.
An individual who has by no means run an airport and doesn’t even perceive the enterprise, and probably the most worthwhile airports had been handed over to him, Gandhi alleged.
“My query is why one individual was handed over six airports because the rule was to not give greater than two airports to at least one individual.
“One other query is that when the Airports Authority of India, Union Finance Ministry and Niti Aayog all objected to this choice and termed it as unsuitable, then who overturned these objections and why. The contract was for 30 years, then why was it modified to 50 years? Why was the income mannequin modified ?” he requested, posing a set of questions.
“The final ‘jadu’ was the Mumbai airport, the golden sparrow of India’s airports. There was stress from the businesses – the CBI and ED – on the Mumbai airport operator. The second the Mumbai operator handed over the airport to Adani, the businesses give him a clear chit,” he alleged, claiming that he raised all these points in Parliament.
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