Will keep raising Adani issue inside, outside Parliament: Congress

The Congress party on Friday said the party will continue to raise the Adani issue, both inside and outside of Parliament.

At a press conference at the party headquarters, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge posed 10 questions to the government on various issues, including the Adani controversy and expunging of some remarks of him and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in Parliament.

Alleging that the Adani issue was a "big scam" that involved public money and needed to be investigated properly, Kharge questioned why the government was reluctant to order a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probe into it.


"Why is the Modi government not conducting a joint parliamentary committee probe into the allegations against the Adani Group? What is the reason behind Modi ji and his government not even allowing (anyone) to raise the word 'Adani' in Parliament?" he said.

The Congress has been protesting against the expunging of remarks of Gandhi and Kharge related to allegations of misuse of government policy to benefit businessman Gautam Adani's business interests. Kharge said he had not stated anything unparliamentary in his speech in the Rajya Sabha and had only asked some questions on the Adani issue.

"Why are RBI, Sebi, ED, SFIO, corporate affairs ministry, IT and CBI paralysed? So many scams have happened and why are they still silent? They only see other people but not him (Adani). Modi ji is now using our Parliament like a washing machine to wash scams of his friend," Kharge alleged in a tweet in Hindi.

He said he had written to the Rajya Sabha chairman over expunging of his remarks. "By merely expunging his remarks, the allegations made by people and the media will not be cleared," he said.