India a case study on government-business tango, PM Modi deserves gold medal for facilitating Adani's rise: Rahul Gandhi - The Tribune India

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday used the occasion of parliamentary debate on President’s address to both Houses to allege government facilitation of Gautam Adani’s rise from 608th position in the world’s richest list to number two between 2014 and 2023, and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi deserves a gold medal for this.

“Rahul ji hope you know you are out on bail in serious corruption charges,” former law minister and BJP veteran Ravi Shankar Prasad said while Gandhi levelled accusations of rules being bent to give a contract to Adani to develop six airports, when he had no prior experience of the sector as rules mandated.

Gandhi said the union budget has announced 50 airports, coastal shipping measures, grain storage for Adani.

In between his speech, Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla said, “It is not proper to reduce the debate on President address to one topic.

Gandhi later said his speech touched on all sectors — local, national and international as Adani-PM relationship progressed along these three levels right from the days when Adani helped Modi with the investors’ summit in Gujarat.

Gandhi also weighed in on Adani’s business interests in drone, green hydrogen, solar and wind power technologies apart from ports and airports.