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Sachin Pilot on Adani-Hindenburg row: If Centre has nothing to hide, why no JPC?

Published Feb 18, 2023 | 4:00 AM ⚊UpdatedFeb 18, 2023 | 7:36 AM

Congress leader and Member of Rajasthan's Legislative Assembly Sachin Pilot with Congress Leader Priyank Kharge in Bengaluru

Congress leader and member of Rajasthan’s Legislative Assembly Sachin Pilot, on Friday, 17 February, lambasted the Centre over the Adani-Hindenburg controversy.

Talking to reporters at the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) office in Bengaluru on Friday afternoon after the state budget, he alleged that the questions posed by Opposition parliamentarians regarding the row were being expunged from the record.

“The brute majority the BJP has in Parliament does give it the right to expunge the questions. There are procedures that need to be followed on what content or questions can be expunged,” he told reporters.

कर्नाटक प्रदेश कांग्रेस मुख्यालय, बेंगलुरु में प्रेस वार्ता को सम्बोधित किया।
हमारी मांग है कि अडानी समूह से जुड़े घोटाले की JPC बनाकर जांच की जाए, परंतु केंद्र सरकार इस विषय पर चर्चा करने से भाग रही है, जो अपने आप में कई सवाल खड़े करता है। pic.twitter.com/9K3DcVyP1V

— Sachin Pilot (@SachinPilot) February 17, 2023

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Silencing the Opposition

Pilot said that when senior parliamentarians like Mallikarjun Kharge, the Congress President, and Rahul Gandhi posed questions on the Adani-Hindenburg row, their questions were expunged from records.

Pilot also stated that the Modi government has not answered a single question and is maintaining silence whenever allegations against Adani come up in Parliament.

The Opposition Congress has been pressing for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) that can probe a scam of this magnitude.

Several questions are being raised about crony capitalism, government assets being sold underpriced, the collusion of political powers with industrialists who have business interests, he said, adding that the scam needs to be investigated if the government has nothing to hide.

“When the government is saying they are open for a discussion and they have nothing to hide, why are they shying away from a JPC on this issue,” Pilot demanded to know.

The Congress has been repeatedly demanding a JPC probe into the Adani-Hindenburg row.

The US-based short-seller firm Hindenburg Research released a report on 24 January this year, claiming the Adani Group had weak business fundamentals and was involved in stock manipulation and accounting fraud among other allegations.

However, according to a statement by the Adani Group, the conglomerate is focused on taking India forward in terms of its economy and nation-building.

The Hindenburg report, however, triggered a sell-off of shares of all Adani Group companies.