The Jammu and Kashmir Congress on Monday protested in support of the party\u2019s demand for a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probe into the allegations of irregularities against the Adani group, and clashed with police at some places.<\/p>\n
They also slammed the administration over the ongoing \u201carbitrary eviction\u201d drive in the Union territory, saying it was great injustice with \u201clandless tillers, small, marginal farmers and the common people\u201d.<\/p>\n
In Jammu, hundreds of Congress workers, led by senior party leaders Vikar Rasool and working president Raman Bhalla, took out a rally from Shaheedi Chowk to City Chowk near the Life Insurance Corporation and SBI offices.<\/p>\n
Raising slogans against the government, BJP, and Adnai group, they clashed with the police, with some of them trying to break the barricade to march forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, we protested from Sansad to Sadakh (inside Parliament and outside it) over the Adani issue. We demand that a JPC be set up to probe it. We also demand a probe by a retired chief justice into it,\u201d Bhalla told reporters at the protest.<\/p>\n
Taking a dig at the BJP government for \u201cinvesting\u201d LIC and SBI money into the Adnai Group, he said, \u201cHow public money has been invested in the group. It is matter of probe.\u201d In Srinagar, led by senior party leader Mohammad Anwar Bhat, Congress workers raised slogans in favour of the JPC probe into the allegations of fraud against the Adani Group levelled in a report by US-based short-seller Hindenburg research.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are protesting against the current situation of the country where the Adani-Ambani have looted the country. The LIC has invested thousands of crores in the Adani group while Jammu and Kashmir Bank also lost Rs 250 crore in it,\u201d Bhat told mediapersons inside the PCC headquarters in Srinagar.<\/p>\n
He also alleged the eviction drive has been launched by the LG administration in Jammu and Kashmir so that the BJP-ruled Centre can give land to the Adani Group to \u201ccompensate\u201d for its losses following the release of the Hindenburg report last month.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will not allow this to happen.\u201d Congress chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma said in Jammu the issue of \u201cinvestment\u201d of public money through the LIC and SBI into the Adani Group is a matter of serious concern and the Modi government has been \u201cevading\u201d questions in Parliament. \u201cSo a nationwide protest is being held near SBI and LIC offices by the party.\u201d According to the Opposition, the meltdown in Adani Group shares is a \u201cscam that involves common people\u2019s money as public sector (units) LIC and SBI have invested in them\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Adani Group has maintained it complies with all laws and disclosure requirements.<\/p>\n
Congress leaders also said the anti-encroachment drive was \u201cgreat injustice with landless tillers, small, marginal farmers and the common people\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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