New Delhi: Hours after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar met industrialist Gautam Adani on Thursday, Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra said no politician should engage with the business tycoon till the government takes action, apparently on the allegations made by US short seller Hindenburg Research against the conglomerate.
Moitra said she has nothing to discuss with Adani on a one-on-one basis and claimed that the industrialist tried to contact her and a few others through his “friends/ wheeler-dealers” but “couldn't find the door”.
Taking to Twitter, she wrote, “Adani tried utmost to get to me and few others through his friends/ wheeler dealers. He couldn’t even find the door, let alone get past it. I have nothing to discuss on 1:1 basis with Adani. I firmly believe till government takes action no politician should engage with this man.”
Amid reports of NCP President Sharad Pawar meeting Adani, the TMC leader launched a sharp attack on the former saying she has “no fear in taking on Great Marathas.”
“Adani hamaam mein to saare hi nange hai. I have no fear in taking on Great Marathas. Can only hope they have good sense to put country before old relationships. And no, my tweet is not anti-opposition unity. Rather it is pro-public interest,” Mahua Moitra tweeted.
Earlier in the day, Adani met Pawar at the latter’s Silver Oak residence in south Mumbai amid the Opposition's demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Adani-Hindenburg issue. The meeting lasted for nearly two hours, reported news agency PTI citing people familiar with the matter.
Notably, Pawar had earlier said he favoured a Supreme Court committee to probe the allegations against the Adani group since the ruling BJP would have a majority in the JPC and this would lead to doubts on such a probe.