New Delhi: In 2014, Gautam Adani planned to sell electricity to Pakistan. Now, revelations of The guardian This week, the power project near the border in the Kutch Rann was secretly delivered to the company by the Modi government after adjusting the defense rules, Flak has extracted opposition.
The Congress Congress on Wednesday requested the Government led by Narendra Modi that is clarified in the claims made in a news report that the rules had changed with respect to the allocation of land near international borders to help the Adani group to build A renewable energy park in the Kutch Ran of Gujarat At. The border between India-Pakistan.
React to an investigation by The guardianCongress leaders said the government movement endangers national security and asked the prime minister and the Minister of Defense to “explain why such drastic step was taken to compromise our national security.”
Neither the government nor the Adani group had responded to the news reports and the comments made by the opposition party, the Indian Express saying.
Congress asks the Modi government to be clarified in the claims made in the Guardian report
The investigation by The guardianBut not a revelation since the project was mentioned a long time ago in 2014, he said that the Adani group is establishing a solar plant and building the world’s largest renewable energy park in Khavda in Kutch, just one kilometer from the border of Pakistan.
The previous security protocols did not allow any construction in the area, but the Gujarat government wrote to the office of the Prime Minister (PMO) before April 2023, seeking permission for infrastructure projects that will be built on Earth near the border , the British publication reported.
His report said that a “confidential meeting” was convened in Delhi on April 21, 2023 to discuss the matter. At that time, the Indian Solar Energy Corporation (SECI) was in possession of the land that was leased by the Gujarat government.
The guardian In addition, he informed that by May 8, 2023, the center had changed the protocols to allow infrastructure projects. In August, the Adani group was in charge of the Earth in the Kutch ran, added the document.
The president of the Congress, Mallikarjun Kharge, said that the pseudonationalist face of the ruling party Bharatiya Janata (BJP) has been unmasked once again.
“Narendra Modiji, you have in danger national security on our borders to benefit private billionaires. Is it true that he has given a precious strategic land, just 1 km near the international border with Pakistan, his ‘dear friend’ by relaxing the border security rules? Mr. Kharge asked in an X publication.
In a publication about X in Hindi, the secretary general of Congress, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, asked: “Has the process of delivering all the country’s resources to the ‘friend’ of the Prime Minister to deliver that even the border security rules are changing are changing ? “
In May 2014, coinciding with the promotion to the power of the PM Prime Minister, the Indian Express He informed that Adani Power was planning to establish a 10,000mw thermal plant in the Gujarat Kutch region and most of the electricity that will occur from it would probably be exported to Pakistan.
He Express He cited unidentified sources saying at that time that Adani Power discussed the proposal of the Kutch project with the UPA-II Government Manmohan Singh, but there was not much progress. Then, the company expected to implement the proposal during the incoming regime of NDA as a project based on phases that begins with 3,300MW and increases it to 10,000MW in the next five years, he said.
Posted in Dawn, February 14, 2025
