Opposition MPs to march to ED office on Adani issue

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NEW DELHI: Leaders of several opposition parties on Wednesday decided to take out a protest march from Parliament House to the ED office here and hand over a complaint to the probe agency on the Adani issue.

The leaders met in the office of Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge in the Parliament House complex to coordinate their joint strategy on the issue.

The protest march would begin at 12.30pm from Parliament House and MPs from several opposition parties would take part, party sources said.

The opposition has been demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Adani-Hindenburg issue and has been stalling proceedings of Parliament over their demand.

US short-seller Hindenburg Research had alleged that the Adani group was “engaged in a brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud”, and used offshore shell companies to inflate stock prices.

The group had denied the allegations, calling them “malicious”, “baseless” and a “calculated attack on Indiaā€¯.

The Trinamool Congress separately staged a protest in front of the Gandhi statue in Parliament complex over the LPG price hike.

TMC MPs raised slogans against the government over the LPG price hike and demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi reply to this.