- Monday, March 03, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
A march organised by leaders of 18 opposition parties in India on Wednesday (15) demanding a probe into the row involving the Adani Group was called off after Delhi Police personnel blocked the road.
The march started from the parliament building in the afternoon.
The opposition leaders had planned to march till the office of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the capital to seek an investigation into the Adani-Hindenburg issue and highlight alleged misuse of central probe agencies by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
But their plan failed as the law-keepers put up barricades and deployed personnel to stop the opposition leaders’ march to the ED office.
The protesters called off the march after failing to progress and returned to the parliament. They said they sought an appointment with the ED officials and would release a joint complaint letter soon, NDTV reported.
“They have stopped us here. We are 200 people, and there are at least 2,000 police personnel. They want to suppress our voice. And then they talk about democracy,” Indian National Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge told the media after the police blocked their march.
“And if someone talks about these things in a debate, a seminar, they are called anti-national,” he added, referring to the row over party leader Rahul Gandhi’s recent remarks in London targeting the BJP government led by prime minister Narendra Modi.
The Trinamool Congress and Nationalist Congress Party, two of India’s major non-BJP parties, did not join the march.
In January, US short seller Hindenburg Research alleged that the Adani Group “engaged in a brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud”, and used offshore shell companies to inflate stock prices.
The group denied the allegations, calling them “malicious”, “baseless” and a “calculated attack on India.
The opposition has sought a joint parliamentary committee probe into the matter.
