New Delhi: “Is Rahul Gandhi a ghost or not? Is Rahul Gandhi alive or useless?” BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Tuesday attacked the senior Congress chief within the Lok Sabha in his 11-point riposte after Gandhi posed three inquiries to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a part of his celebration’s ‘Hum Adani Ke Hai Kaun’ protest collection.
The Congress on Sunday introduced that it could pose three queries each day to the PM as a part of its new “collection HAHK — Hum Adani ke Hain Kaun”, over the Union authorities’s silence over fraud allegations towards the Adani Group by short-seller Hindenburg Analysis.
In one among his questions, Rahul talked about the Hindenburg report that acknowledged that the Adani Group has shell firms overseas. “Who owns the shell firms in Mauritius? The hundreds of crores that these shell firms are sending to India, whose cash is that this? Is Adani doing this totally free?,” he requested.
In one other query, he requested how Adani turning into the world’s second richest man. “After 2014, how did Adani’s internet value go from 8 billion {dollars} to 140 billion {dollars}? In 2014, Adani was at 609 in record of world’s richest, how did he change into world No. 2? What’s the magic behind this? How a lot cash has Adani given to the BJP within the final 20 years? And the way a lot cash has BJP obtained from Adani by electoral bonds?” he mentioned.
Responding to Gandhi’s allegations of collusion between the Adani Group and the ruling celebration, Dubey harped on controversies and scandals that broke out through the earlier Congress governments from Bofors, Bhopal Gasoline Tragedy to AgustaWestland. The BJP MP additionally alluded to shut relationships between Congress leaders and organisations such because the RSS.
Taking a jibe on the Congress chief, Dubey requested: “Is Rahul Gandhi a ghost or not? Is Rahul Gandhi alive or useless?”, referring to a remark by Rahul through the Bharat Jodo Yatra the place the Congress chief had mentioned that the “previous Rahul Gandhi is useless”.
Attacking the Congress over the Bhopal gasoline tragedy, the BJP MP requested how the celebration let the chairman of Union Carbide, Warren Anderson, escape India. The Congress was in energy in Madhya Pradesh and on the Centre when the tragedy struck in 1984.
“Your celebration’s PM Narasimha Rao, did he keep in Balasaheb Deoras home in Nagpur or not?”, Dubey requested, referring to former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Madhukar Dattatraya Deoras, popularly referred to as Balasaheb Deoras.
“Pranab Mukherjee, who visited RSS workplace, was he a part of your celebration?”, Dubey requested, referring to Mukherjee’s speech at an RSS occasion in 2018.
Countering Rahul’s allegations over Adani, Dubey mentioned: “Did your authorities not give the Australia mines to Adani in 2010? Did you not change guidelines for GMR, GVK (builders)? Did they’ve expertise?”
“What was the position of the Congress authorities and its leaders like Madhavrao Solanki in
(Ottaviou) Quattrochi escaping?”
Dubey additionally attacked the Congress over Robert Vadra, husband of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. “What’s the relationship between Robert Vadra and Sanjay Bhandari?” Dubey requested, referring to the arms vendor.
He additionally cited the Nationwide Herald case that has introduced the Gandhi household below the radar of ED and CBI.
Ending his speech and difficult Rahul, Dubey mentioned: “When you can show that after turning into PM, Modi ji travelled even as soon as with Adani, I’ll resign.”
The article has been up to date to take away parts of Rahul Gandhi’s speech that have been expunged by the Lok Sabha Speaker after the publication of the report.