Congress’s demand for JPC probe a sham, aim is to weaken economy: BJP on Hindenburg allegations
New Delhi, August 12
The ruling BJP on Monday flagged the Goerge Soros connection with the latest Hindenburg allegations against industrialist Gautam Adani and the SEBI chairperson and accused the Congress of spreading economic anarchy in India based on "fictitious reports".
Addressing a press conference here, BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said George Soros, the US billionaire, who openly called for a regime change in India on the Lok Sabha election eve, was the biggest investor in the American short selling firm Hindenburg, which has accused the SEBI chairperson of going soft on Gautam Adani's alleged market manipulation because she had shares in one of his offshore firms.
A day after SEBI denied charges and defended chairperson Madhabi Buch saying she had recused from the Adani issue probe disclosing conflict of interest, Ravi Shankar Prasad said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had tried to crash the stock markets in India by citing risks to small investors in the wake of Hindenburg's latest allegations.
Noting that Hindenburg never replied to a July notice by SEBI in the matter pertaining to its previous charges against Adani and has now responded with "another fictitious report", Prasad said, "What does Congress want? In their pathological hatred for PM Narendra Modi led by Rahul Gandhi and the toolkit gang they have developed hatred towards India. If stock market is disturbed who will be impacted? Small investors."
Prasad said the Congress was practising tool kit and chit politics.
"They first got chits on Rafale, then Hindenburg. Now they want a JPC. The purpose is to crash the stock market, prevent FII and FDI from coming to India. I ask those Congress leaders who opened the Indian economy till when they will remain silent," asked Prasad, noting that the stock market is stable even today and the small investors have seen through the Congress and Hindenburg conspiracy.
"We salute small investors for not believing in this conspiracy. We also want to question the timing of the Hindenburg report right after the Parliament session. There are too many suspicious circumstances surrounding the matter," the former minister said.
The BJP plans to hold a nationwide outreach to "expose this Congress conspiracy all over the country and Congress attempts to create economic anarchy in India".
Prasad also asked Rahul why after alleging surveillance of his phone through the Pegasus spyware he never submitted his phone to the Supreme Court which was hearing the matter.
What was hidden in his phone, the BJP leader asked.
The Congress leaders practise shoot and scoot politics, the ex-minister said.
