Mumbai: TMC seeks probe into stock market 'manipulation'; NCP (SP) backs demand

On Tuesday a delegation of Trinamool Congress lawmakers met with Nationalist Congress Party SP chairman Sharad Pawar who supported their call for an investigation into alleged stock market manipulation following exit polls earlier this monthAccording to a PTI report Congress MP Rahul Gandhi claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah were directly involved in the biggest stock market scam in which retail investors lost Rs 30 lakh crore as the market crashed following the Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 earlier this monthHowever the Bharatiya Janta Party has dismissed the claims made by Gandhi scion and said that the charges were baselessReportedly West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee demanded an investigation into the alleged manipulation of stock markers by using fake exit pollsIn a post on X formerly Twitter Sharad Pawar said that the MPs from TMC who were in the city to visit SEBI visited him He added that Sena UBT leader Arvind Sawant Supriya Sule and ExMLC Vidya Chavan were also present In his post he said that his party backs TMCs demand for a probeAITCofficial MPs Kalyan Banerjee Sagarika Ghosh and Saket Gokale are in Mumbai to visit SEBI demanding an investigation in the stock market manipulation during exit polls NCPspeaks is supporting them in this cause This morning they made a courtesy visit to my Mumbaihellip pictwittercomCkJUyZ8LaCmdash Sharad Pawar PawarSpeaks June 18 2024All India Trinamool Congress MPs Kalyan Banerjee Sagarika Ghosh and Saket Gokhale are in Mumbai to visit SEBI demanding an investigation in the stock market manipulation during exit polls NCPspeaks is supporting them in this cause This morning they made a courtesy visit to my Mumbai residence along withShivSenaUBT_ MP Arvind Sawant MP Supriya Sule and ExMLC Vidya Chavan were also present Sharad Pawar wrote in his X postCongress leader Rahul Gandhi on June 6 had held a press conference wherein he alleged that PM Modi and Amit Shah were directly involved in the stock market manipulation and sought a joint parliamentary committee probe into it He claimed that the duo knew how many seats the BJP would be winning yet they artificially jacked up the stock prices using the fake exit polls and the markets crashed after the Lok Sabha election results 2024 came out on June 4The common people of India lost Rs 30 lakh crore in the stock market on June 4We demand a JPC Joint Parliamentary Committee investigation into this biggestever stock market scam This is a criminal act and we demand a JPC to investigate the involvement of the prime minister home minister and finance minister and who are the people who made the money in this scam I am saying that people very high up in the BJP have carried out the scamthey had partners who carried out these exit polls We would like to know if these exit polls were actually carried out and if people were actually sent out and we would also like to know the methodology of these pollswe would like to understand who these investors are We have some sense of who these investors are he alleged and added We are absolutely convinced that this is a scam Somebody has made thousands of crores of rupees at the cost of Indian retail investors and the Prime Minister and the Home Minister have given an indication to buy and this is a criminal act So we demand today a Joint Parliamentary Committee JPC to investigate this