'Adani & Modi's Relation Should Be Probed': Kharge During Protest March To ED Office

Mallikarjun Kharge, who led the march alleged that police was not letting them go forward because the 'government does not want us to demand probe into Adani issue'. 

New Delhi: Leaders from the Opposition parties started their protest march from the Parliament complex to the Enforcement Directorate office in the national capital to submit a complaint against Adani Group amid heavy police presence and barricading but were barred from moving forward as police impose Section 144 near Vijay Chowk.

Mallikarjun Kharge, who led the march alleged that the police was not letting them go forward because the "government does not want us to demand a probe into the Adani issue." 

A total of 16 Opposition parties are participating in the protest march. 

While Trinamool Congress and Nationalist Congress Party were missing from the march, the parties that are participating include Congress, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagham, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Janata Dal-United, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Samajwadi Party, Shiv Sena (Uddhav), Aam Aadmi Party, Communist Party of India, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Indian Union Muslim League, Marumalachi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagham, National Conference, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi, and Kerala Congress. 

Prior to the march, the Opposition leaders met Rajya Sabha Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge in his chamber to coordinate their strategy on the issue. 

The Opposition has been demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe over the Hindenburg Research report on the Adani Group and has been creating an uproar on the issue in both Houses of Parliament, stalling the proceedings.

The Trinamool Congress however staged a protest separately at the Mahatma Gandhi statue in the Parliament and said that it won't "join hands with Congress." 

TMC leader Sudip Bandopadhyay said the party would not participate in any of the other protests and that it would protest on its own issues and agenda in the Parliament. "In our state (Bengal), the Congress is totally in connivance with BJP and CPM so we cannot join hands with meetings called by Congress leaders," he said.

"It is most unfortunate that the Parliament is not succeeding to commence its session. Whether the ruling party or the main opp party, both are at loggerheads with each other" he added. 

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.