JKPCC holds Chalo Raj Bhavan Yatra over Centre’s silence on Adani row

Vikar, Bhalla & hundred others detained by J&K Police for protesting against Adani

JAMMU, March 13: JKPCC President Vikar Rasool Wani and JKPCC Working President Raman Bhalla along with others were today taken into custody when they  led massive Chalo Raj Bhavan March in Jammu from Maharaja Hari Singh Park on the ongoing Adani row demanding a JPC Probe in the matter. 

They were accompanied by Tara Chand Ex Dy CM,Kanta Bhan Vice President, Th Manmohan Singh Gen Secretary ,Ex MLAs Indu Pawar, Yogesh Sawhney,Th Balwan Singh,  Gurubachana Kumari , Krishan Bhagat , Ashok Dogra, T S Bajwa Ex MP, Ved Mahajan,Secretaries Pawan Raina, Shashi Sharma Sanjeev Panda, Kulbir Pathania.

Prominent among those who participated in March include Th Hari Singh DCC President Jammu Rural,Pankaj Dogra DCC President Kathua,Sanjeev Sharma DCC President Samba,Asif Naqib DCC President Doda,Vijay Sharma Congress Sevadal Chairman, Karan Bhagat SC Cell Chairman ,Amrit Bali Refugee Cell Chairman ,Suresh Dogra OBC Cell Chairman,Nariender Gupta Sport Cell Chairman,  Ajay Lakhotra NSUI President. President ,Corporators Dwarka Choudhary,  Banu Mahajan , Ritu Choudhary,  Pritam Singh,  Indujeet Kaur , Kamal Charak ,Satish Sharma Ex Corporator, AICC Members Satish Madan Sharma, Naresh Sharma, Narender Sharma, Ashok Gupta ,Rajveer Singh, Ajaz Choudhary ,Kajal Rajput ,Babal Gupta ,Gurudarshan Singh , Suman Choudhary, Rajveer Singh, Jatin K Raina ,Bilal Rashid, Gurmeet Singh, Pritam Singh, Rashpal, Charnjeet Bhagat ,Jatinder Bhagat ,Sahil Sharma ,Pankaj Sharma ,Hoshiyar Singh ,Balbir Singh ,Anoop Gupta, Ankush Sudan ,Ajaib Motton.

The rally began at Maharaja Hari Singh Park. Congress leaders were seen raising slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government. Protesters holding placards and climbing over barricades set up by police while heading towards Raj Bhawan, Wani, Bhalla along with hundreds others were detained and taken to PCR where they were released after a brief time.

Addressing the gathering, Wani  underscored how Adani rose from the 100th position to the 2nd in a short span. He also slammed the probing agencies for torturing the leaders of the opposition and being heedless of the Adani row.Wani alleged that the PM was suppressing the voice of the media. He said that the central government’s policy of crony capitalism in favour of the Adani group, under which vital infrastructure of the country was being sold to the Adani group at the time of deep economic crisis in the country and public institutions like SBI and LIC were being forced to invest in the Adani group putting at risk the savings of the poor and middle class.

Wani observed that after coming to power in the year 2014 by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the center, the central government has been continuously selling various undertakings of basic national importance to a crony capitalist Adani group of Gujarat and for the development of the country and the welfare of the people. Thousands of crores of rupees were invested by the State Bank of India and LIC Insurance Company in his private companies. Adani Group’s shares fell heavily after the revelations of Hindenburg, a foreign company that assesses the financial condition of companies in the stock market. Due to the drowning of the amount of other financial institutions including SBI and LIC Insurance Company, they suffered huge losses, added Wani.

Bhalla speaking on the occasion said that after gaining independence from colonialism in 1947, India became a republic, under the able leadership of our party, the Indian National Congress, many National level undertakings were formed at a time when our nation was making an important place on the world stage by facing many challenges.For the last seven decades, all those undertakings have been contributing significantly in the development of our country, as well as providing employment opportunities to lakhs of people and in the development of the nation.He said that the Congress party stands shoulder to shoulder with the people of India struggling against rising prices, highest unemployment and a Government sponsored divisive agenda to deflect the public attention from its governance failure.  

Bhalla said Congress is not against any particular person rising from 609th place in the richest persons’ list to the 2nd position. But we are certainly against the government-sponsored private monopolies as those are against public interests and we are also against particular persons accused of having objectionable relations with tax havens, fraud and corruption monopolizing our national resources while exploiting our international goodwill. Surprisingly all the Government agencies are either missing from action or facilitating the very process of mutual understanding between Modi and crony capitalist. Why this government is not forming Joint Parliamentary Committee on the issue?.  The collapse in stock prices following the publication of these allegations has financially damaged the lakhs of retail investors who invested in Adani Group stocks after being duped by artificially-inflated prices, said Bhalla.

Former DyCM Tara Chand speaking on the occasion said that rather than investigating, PM Modi offered even more opportunities to the Adani Group in this year’s Mitr Kaal budget. Over  the  years,  PM Modi  has  misused  agencies  like  the  ED,  CBI  and  Directorate  of  Revenue  Intelligence (DRI)  to  intimidate   his political or  ideological  opponents,  and  to  punish  business  houses  that  do not fall in line  with his financial interests.The Modi government may have controlled all the government agencies and institutions like CAG, CBI etc. for the last nine years but the truth always comes out and it cannot be suppressed by using the ED and CBI. Please wait and watch, this is just a beginning, more skeletons will tumble out from BJP’s closet said Tara Chand.

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