NEW DELHI: On the day Hindenburg announced its closure, BJP hit out at Rahul Gandhi and asked him if he will now acquire the franchise to run the short-seller’s ‘shop’ which ‘works in sync’ with Congress to destabilise India.
“Rahul Gandhi is in the complete grip of urban Naxals’ thinking process. Now that Hindenburg is closing its shop, have you got the contract for it?” BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad asked at a press conference.
He also said with Donald Trump set to take over as US president in a few days, it was a matter of time before another India-baiter, billionaire donor George Soros ‘who funded Hindenburg’, shuttered too.
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Prasad’s attack came a day after Rahul kicked up a row by declaring Congress was now fighting RSS, BJP and the Indian state itself.
BJP latched on to the comments to corner Rahul, and the attacks continued on Thursday after Hindenburg’s founder announced his decision to shut down the research firm.
Its reports against the Adani group and market regulator Sebi last year had ignited political firestorms in India, and Congress had repeatedly cited it to attack PM Narendra Modi.
The Adani group has denied the short-selling firm’s charge of business malpractice and defied the widely held estimate that it would not survive the controversy triggered by Hindenburg.
Prasad alleged that Hindenburg and Congress used to work in sync to destabilise India, adding that Hindenburg repeatedly worked against the Indian state by timing its reports with Parliament’s sessions. Congress, predictably, jumped on the reports to disrupt proceedings, he added.
On Rahul’s comment that Congress was fighting the Indian state itself, Prasad said the definition of Indian state included the President, vice-president, Parliament, state assemblies and also Rahul as the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha. He said Rahul had become the leader of opposition but he did not think before speaking, and asked him to change his ‘tutor’.
