Sharad Pawar, Chief, NCP supports Adani Group; says Hidenburg report seems “targeted”.

Nationalist
Congress Party (NCP) Chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday in an interview with NDTV said that the Adani Group is being
targeted.
"Such
statements were given by other individuals too earlier and there was a ruckus
in parliament for a few days but this time out of proportion importance was
given to the issue. The issues that were kept, who kept them, we had never
heard of these people who gave the statement, what is the background. When they
raise issues that cause a ruckus across the country, the cost is borne by the
country's economy, we cannot disregard these things. It seems this was
targeted," Mr Pawar told NDTV in an exclusive interview.
"An
individual industrial group of the country was targeted, that is what it seems.
If they have done anything wrong, there should be an inquiry."
Talking
about the demand for JPC probe on the issue by the Congress party, the chief of
NCP said he does not share the views of the party.
Pawar
said he prefers the Supreme Court appointed committee probe with a retired
Supreme Court judge, an expert, an administrator, and an economist rather than
a JPC probe.
"If
the Supreme Court, who no one can influence, if they were to conduct the
inquiry, then there was a better chance of the truth coming to light. So, after
the Supreme Court announced an inquiry, there was no significance of a JPC
Probe. It was not needed," Pawar stated.
The NCP
leader also disagreed with Rahul Gandhi's targeting of Ambani and Adani,
claiming that the companies have made contributions to the petrochemical and
energy industries.
On
January 24, a US-based short- selling firm Hindenburg Research, published a
report titled, “Adani Group: How The World’s 3rd Richest Man Is Pulling The
Largest Con in Corporate History", where it alleges that their two-year
investigation led to the revelation that the Adani Group has “engaged in a
brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme over the course of
decades.
However,
the Adani Group had denied the allegations calling the report malicious and
baseless.
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