'We've no personal issues with Adani or Ambani, but Rahul struck right chord'

Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Wednesday said Rahul Gandhi hit the right chord by flagging the issue related to industrialist Gautam Adani but insisted the party has no personal issues with Adani or AmbaniWe want the country to grow and have more industrialists Chowdhury said participating in a debate on the Motion of Thanks to the Presidents Address in Lok Sabha I am saying it openly we have no personal issues with Adani ji We have no personal issues with Ambani ji he saidHis remarks came a day after Rahul Gandhi led a blistering Opposition attack in Lok Sabha over a report by USbased shortseller Hindenburg Research Gandhi had claimed that the meteoric rise in Adanis fortunes happened after the BJP came to power in 2014 and rose in the global rich list from the 609th to the second spot eventuallyGandhis arrow has hit the right target Chowdhury said claiming the BJP tried hard to brand the former Congress president as a pappu but instead the ruling party has been made to look like one by Rahul Gandhi as it has to deploy its big guns to counter him after his speech on TuesdayWith BJP members reacting with laughter Home Minister Amit Shah taunted him saying You cannot call the honourable MP Rahul Gandhi Pappu Chowdhury said the issues Rahul Gandhi flagged are being discussed all over the country He also accused the BJP of defending the Adani Group and said never in the past has a ruling party has come out in the defence of one industrialistChowdhury also said the BJP has time and again mentioned that President Droupadi Murmu comes from a tribal community and made it as an election issueThe Congress leader said he wonders if Murmu was made President for political gains as earlier no one talked about the religion or caste of a president This amounts to raising questions over her capabilities he saidAlso read Democracy was cremated in Lok Sabha says Congress as Rahul Gandhis remarks expungedIt looks as if you BJP have gifted the post to a tribal woman he said adding He also said the Congress never called the prime minister as OBC dada brotherTreasury benches demands these remarks to should be expunged The Congress leader also criticised the BJP government saying it has no Muslim MP or a Muslim member in the CabinetOn the China border issue he said after the 1962 IndiaChina war the then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru agreed for a discussion on a request by Atal Bihari Vajpayee but the present BJP government says no to a debate for a discussion on Chinese incursions into IndiaHe urged the home minister to take a delegation on the Chinese border to review the ground situation Our rights are in danger He also alleged ministers and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar have been giving statements against the judiciary which is an attack on its independenceThis 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