Here's What Rahul Gandhi Said About A Possible Probe Into Adani Over-Invoicing Allegations

Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday promised to probe the Adani Group if the Congress is voted back to power in the 2024 national polls while asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi to protect his credibility by ordering an investigation. Gandhi referred to a report this month in the British business daily The Financial Times (FT) on Adani Group’s over-invoicing of coal imports. He called it a huge story about a direct theft while accusing Modi of protecting Adani again and again. “While our [state Congress governments] are giving power subsidy, Adani Group is over-invoicing coal and stealing directly from people of India. This cannot happen without the protection of the Prime Minister.” Gandhi said Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar is not the Prime Minister and not protecting Adani. He was responding to a question about his ally’s meeting with Adani and distancing himself from the demand for a JPC probe against the Adani Group. “If he [Pawar] were the Prime Minister, we would have asked him.”