Oppn leaders take out protest march from Parliament to ED office on Adani issue

Amid the ongoing 2nd phase of the Parliament Budget Session leaders of several opposition parties on Wednesday afternoon started a protest march from the Parliament to Enforcement Directorate ED office hereThe Opposition leaders are going to hand over a complaint to the probe agency on the Adani issueNotably Nationalist Congress Party NCP and Trinamool Congress TMC are not participating in the protest marchHeavy security has been deployed at the Vijay Chowk in wake of the protest march by the leaders of the Opposition partiesPolice were making announcements at Vijay Chowk and informed the marching Opposition MPs to not march ahead as Section 144 CrPC is imposed and no agitation is allowed in the areaEarlier today several Opposition MPs gathered for a meeting over the Adani Group issue at the Rajya Sabha leader of the opposition and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharges Parliament chamberThe Opposition has been raising the Adani issue and demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee JPC probe into the HindenburgAdani reportThe second leg of the Budget session of Parliament resumed after a monthlong break on Monday The recess was for enabling the departmentrelated Parliamentary Standing Committees to examine the demands for grants and make reports relating to their ministries or departmentsThe Parliament has also faced repeated disruptions amid the protest and ruckus in the house over regular protests by the OppositionAlso Read Landforjob scam Delhi court gives bail to Lalu Rabri and Misa BhartiEarlier on Monday 16 parties participated in the Opposition party leaders meeting chaired by Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge in ParliamentIndian National Congress Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam DMK Samajwadi Party Janata Dal United Aam Admi Party Communist Party of India Marxist Kerala Congress Nationalist Congress Party Communist Party of India Indian Union Muslim League Shiv Sena Uddhav Thackeray Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Rashtriya Janata Dal Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi and the NC participated in the meetingThe concerned report from USbased shortseller firm Hindenburg Research surfaced on January 24 claiming that the Adani Group had weak business fundamentals and was involved in stock manipulation and accounting fraud among othersIt is pertinent to mention that the Supreme Court set up an expert committee on the issue arising from the Hindenburg Research report on Adani Group companies The committee will consist of six members headed by former apex court judge Justice AM SapreThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever