
INDIA bloc MPs protest over Adani issue in Parliament, wear jackets reading 'Modi Adani Ek Hai'
The Hindu
Rahul Gandhi leads protest against Adani, demands parliamentary probe, while TMC stays away from the demonstration.
In an unusual protest, leaders of several INDIA bloc parties wore black jackets with stickers reading "Modi Adani Ek Hai" and "Adani Safe Hai" on them and raised slogans on the Parliament premises to demand a joint parliamentary probe into the Adani issue.
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Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, who put the sticker on his trademark white T-shirt, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi cannot get an investigation done against Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani as it would amount to getting a probe done against himself.
Congress MPs including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and lawmakers of several other Opposition parties like RJD and the Left participated in the protest.
Both Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi demanded that a discussion on the indictment of Adani in a U.S. court on charges of bribery and fraud must take place in Parliament and Prime Minister Narendra Modi must speak in the House on the issue.
The protest took place in front of the steps of Parliament's Makar Dwar and not on the steps leading to it as a Lok Sabha Secretariat advisory and Speaker Om Birla had flagged the issue.
A little later, the protesting MPs lined up in front of the Samvidhan Sadan and raised slogans against Modi and Adani there.