‘PM Modi has no answers’, Mallikarjun Kharge says as Congress protests over JPC demand on Adani allegations

"Why are you scared of a JPC on Adani? You have a two-thirds majority in the Parliament, then why are you scared? This means that something is awry," Kharge said.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge addressing mediapersons at Vijay Chowk. (Video screengrab/ Congress/ Twitter)

Targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress president and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge said that that the PM had no answers to the questions that recently disqualified MP Rahul Gandhi had raised over the allegations against the Adani Group.

“Why are you scared of a JPC on Adani? You have a two-thirds majority in the Parliament, then why are you scared? This means that something is awry,” Kharge said, addressing mediapersons at Vijay Chowk.

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The Congress chief said this was a ‘black day for democracy’. “Such things never happened earlier,” he said, referring to Rahul being convicted for remarks he had made in 2019.

Kharge said that these things started happening once Rahul started raising questions against Adani. “BJP and Modi got scared,” he added.

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He went on to say that apart from the Adani issue, the ruling dispensation was also “scared” by the popular support received by Rahul during his Bharat Jodo Yatra. “To discourage and scare Rahul Gandhi, they are doing such things,” he said.

“No matter how much you try to suppress the Opposition parties, we will not bend,” Kharge added.

Congress MPs were dressed in black on Monday, as a mark of protest against Rahul’s disqualification last week. After raising slogans demanding a JPC probe into the allegations against the Adani Group, they marched to Vijay Chowk, where Kharge addressed mediapoersons.

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