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War of words broke out between congress leader Alka Lamba and Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday, a day after Sharad Pawar in an interview to NDTV broke ranks with the national Opposition and said that he believes the Adani Group is being “targeted” by unknown entities and questioned their motives.
While Alka Lamba tweeted a pic of Sharad Pawar with Gautam Adani and wrote, “Dare Hue- Lalchi log he apne Niji hiton ke chalte tanashah Satta ke Guun Gaa Rahe hain — Desh Ke logo ki ladaai ek akela Rahul Gandhi Lad Raha hai— Poonjipati choron se bhee aur choron ko bachanewale chaukidaar se bhee” (Scared, greedy people are praising aithoritarian government for their personal benefit. The fight of country’s public is being fought by Rahul Gandhi alone — both against corrupt industrialist and also against the chaukidaar protecting them)
In a late night tweet, Devendra Fadnavis responded to Lamba’s tweet and said, “Politics will come and go but this tweet by a Congress leader on their long standing ally of 35 years and one of the India’s senior most political leaders and a 4 time CM of Maharashtra is appaling. Rahul Gandhi is perverting India’s political culture.”
In his interview on Friday, Pawar had also distanced himself from the Congress’s demand of a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the report by short-selling firm Hindenburg and said he did not agree with stalling of Parliament by the Congress-led Opposition on the matter.
“…This time out-of-proportion importance was given to the issue. The issues that were raised, who raised them, we had never heard of these people (Hindenburg) who gave the statement, what is their background? When they raise issues that cause a ruckus across the country, the cost is borne by the country’s economy. We cannot disregard these things. It seems this was targeted,” Pawar said.
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