‘Place strong arguments over BBC series, Adani group’: CM Stalin to party MPs

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin held a meeting with the party’s Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members.

He instructed his party MPs to place strong arguments over the BBC documentary and the Adani Group. At the meeting, CM Stalin discussed the Central Government’s 2023-24 financial report and the President’s speech.

While discussing the debates to be raised in Parliament, CM Stalin urged that members should place strong arguments over the BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots and media report on an alleged scam involving the Adani group.

“Place strong arguments against the comments of certain people, including the Vice President, who are trying to alter the basic structure of the Indian Constitution”, stated CM Stalin.

The two-part of the BBC documentary titled ‘India: The Modi Question’ claims to investigate aspects of the 2002 Gujarat riots when Narendra Modi was the chief minister of the state. The government has denounced and banned the documentary, labelling it as a ‘propaganda’ piece, which the Opposition members have called ‘censorship’.

Shares of seven listed Adani Group companies fell sharply between 1-9 per cent after a report by US-based investor research and activist short-seller firm, Hindenburg Research, led to panic among domestic investors.

The report by Hindenburg Research, released on January 24, 2023, suggested that Adani Group was “engaged in a brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme over the course of decades”.

He had also instructed the DMK MPs to raise the issue of seeking assent from the President for the anti-NEET bill, Srialankan Navy’s attack on Tamil fishermen, building AIIMS in Madurai and approval for the Sethusamudram project.

Furthermore, the DMK supremo also ordered his party MPs to bring up the issue of providing jobs to youths in Tamil Nadu in government offices, especially to those candidates who are being omitted by Neyveli Lignite Corporation.