Under whose shadow ‘your friend’ looted the country: Kharge hits back after PM’s umbrella jibe
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday retorted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “umbrella” jibe by asking when the Centre would announce a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe on the Adani-Hindenburg row.
At a rally in Karnataka’s Belagavi on Monday, PM Modi claimed that Kharge, who hails from the state, was insulted and disrespected by the Congress despite his seniority and age.
PM Modi said, “I have great respect for Mallikarjun Kharge, a son of this land. He has tried to do whatever he could in the service of people. But I was sad looking at how Kharge, who is the president of the party and a senior in age, was treated during the Congress’ session in Chhattisgarh.”
“Kharge did not have the fortune of getting an umbrella’s shade. It was for someone standing next to him,” the prime minister said.
Hitting back at the prime minister, Kharge took to Twitter and asked, “Narendra Modi ji, under whose umbrella did your ‘best friend’ loot everything in the country?”
“We are Congress persons standing under the shade of the tricolour, who freed the country by defeating ‘Company Raj’, and will never allow the country to become ‘Company Raj’,” Kharge further said in a tweet in Hindi.
“Tell us, when will there be a joint parliamentary committee probe on Adani,” the Congress chief then asked.
Congress chief Kharge asked for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the allegations of fraud and stock manipulation against the Adani Group after Hindenburg released a report.
