‘Are you scared?’: Rahul Gandhi tells PM Modi to send CBI, ED to probe if Ambani & Adani sent money to Congress in ‘tempo’ | India News

NEW DELHI: Replying to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s allegations that the Congress has received money from businessmen Adani and Ambani, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi challenged the PM to initiate a CBI or ED investigation into the matter.
Gandhi questioned whether PM Modi’s comments about money being sent by businessmen in a tempo were based on his “personal experience”.

“The money that PM Modi has given to the two businessmen, the Congress party will give the same amount of money to the people of India through the various schemes that the party has promised,” Gandhi said.
“The country knows who is the driver and helper of the BJP’s tempo of corruption,” he said in a post in Hindi on X.
“Modi ji, are you a little scared? Normally you talk about Adani and Ambani in closed doors, but for the first time you have talked about Adani and Ambani in public,” Gandhi said in the video message.
“You also know that they give money in a tempo. Is it your personal experience?” Gandhi said.
“Do one thing – send the CBI, ED to them and carry out a thorough investigation and don’t be scared,” he said.

Earlier, at an election rally in Telangana, PM Modi accused the Congress of having a “deal” with “Ambani and Adani” and questioned if the party had received “tempo loads of black money” from the businessmen in exchange for Rahul Gandhi’s silence on the issue.
PM Modi pointed out that the Congress had been criticizing Adani and Ambani for five years but suddenly stopped after the announcement of elections, suggesting that something suspicious had occurred.
“Certainly something is fishy. For five years, (they) abused Adani-Ambani and it stopped overnight. It means you have received some tempo loads of ‘chori ka maal’ (loot)… Kaale dhan ki kitni boriya bharkar ke rupaye maare hai (how many sacks of black money you have taken). You have to answer the nation,” the prime minister said.
The Congress party has long been accusing the prime minister of favoring the top five industrialists in the country, including Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani. The recent exchange between Gandhi and Modi has brought this issue back into the spotlight, with both sides making strong allegations against each other.
(With inputs from agencies)