Congress accuses PM Modi of ‘foisting’ Adani Group on Sri Lanka

New Delhi: The Congress accused the Centre on Sunday of “lobbying” in favour of the Adani Group for projects in Sri Lanka and “foisting” the business conglomerate on the important neighbour of India.
The opposition party has been persistent in its attack on the government, weeks after Adani Group stocks took a beating on the bourses in the wake of US-based short seller Hindenburg Research making a litany of allegations, including fraudulent transactions and share-price manipulation, on the conglomerate headed by industrialist Gautam Adani.
The Adani Group has dismissed the charges as lies, saying it complies with all laws and disclosure requirements.
Posing a set of three questions to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as part of the party’s “Hum Adani ke Hain Kaun” series, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said they had previously asked Modi on his “apparent haste” to “enrich the Adani Group at the expense of Bangladesh and now, want answers on how he has been “foisting” the business group on another important neighbour, Sri Lanka.
“Parliament resumes on March 13. We are preparing for our interventions to be expunged. But what cannot be erased out is ‘Hum Adanike Hain Kaun’-26 bringing the total of direct questions of the PM so far to 78,” Ramesh tweeted.
Also Read ‘TMC to raise risk exposure of LIC, SBI due to Adani row in Parliament’ Parliament resumes on March 13th. We are preparing for our interventions to be expunged. But what cannot be erased out is HAHK (Hum Adanike Hain Kaun)-26 bringing the total of direct questions of the PM so far to 78. Chuppi Todiye Pradhan Mantriji pic.twitter.com/bHOhXZn2wT — Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) March 10, 2023 He said the governments of India, Japan and Sri Lanka (then headed by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe) signed a memorandum on May 28, 2019 to develop the East Container Terminal in the Colombo South port.