Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar met industrialist Gautam Adani on Thursday. The meeting assumes great significance as NCP’s alliance partner Congress has been very critical of Gautam Adani.
Gautam Adani met NCP chief Sharad Pawar at the latter’s residence in Mumbai.
The meeting comes days after Pawar said that he is not opposed to a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the charges made by Hindenburg Research against the Adani Group. The report alleged stock manipulation and accounting fraud in firms belonging to billionaire Gautam Adani.
The NCP supremo has maintained that a Supreme Court panel will be “more useful and effective” to bring out the truth into allegations against the Adani group.
It may be noted that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and other party leaders have been very critical of Gautam Adani. Gandhi recently termed Adani as “symbol of corruption” in the country and said that he will continue to raise questions on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s relationship with the owner of Adani Group.
“One foreign company takes a position about the situation in the country. We should decide how much focus should be on this. Instead of this (JPC), a Supreme Court panel is more effective. I am not completely opposed to the JPC…there have been JPCs and I have been a chairman of some of the JPCs. The JPC will be constituted on the basis of majority (in Parliament). Instead of a JPC, I am of the opinion the Supreme Court committee is more useful and effective,” Sharad Pawar said.
