BJP's mask will fall: Cong on JPC probe on Adani

March 20, 2023 13:04

Amid the repeated disruptions in Parliament, Congress Rajya Sabha MP Pramod Tiwari on Tuesday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party-led centre for "not letting" the Parliament function.Talking to the media, the Rajya Sabha MP said,

"The drama that has been going on since March 13, can't be happening without a signal from the Prime Minister".

"Today, once again Parliament wasn't allowed to function. What are we demanding? Just a JPC investigation into the biggest scam after Independence," Tiwari further said.

He alleged that if JPC takes place, the "mask of BJP" would fall off. "Why is BJP scared of JPC? If JPC is taken up, BJP's mask would fall off and all those -- from top to bottom -- who filled the coffers of Adani by snatching away the rights of the middle class and the poor will be exposed," he said.

Earlier in the day, Pramod Tiwari gave a suspension of business notice under rule 267 to discuss the need to constitute a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) into the Adani issue.

The Congress leader said in a statement that he had moved the motion to discuss the need to constitute a JPC to investigate the "government's role in promoting the business interests of Adani Group".

"That this House do suspend Zero Hour and relevant rules relating to Question Hour and other businesses of the day to discuss the need to constitute a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to investigate the Government's role in promoting business interests of the Adani Group, including through inaction on serious charges of corporate fraud, political corruption, stock-market manipulation and financial mismanagement, illegal coal mine allocations, negotiations with foreign countries for big-ticket projects, etc," the Rajya Sabha MP said in his statement. -- ANI

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