The Congress party has accused the Uttarakhand government of manipulating tender conditions to award a power project contract to the Adani group.
Reader brief
Through the Reader lens: The Congress party alleges that the Uttarakhand government abandoned a planned public sector power project to create a new tender that favored the Adani group. Leaders claim that 84 out of 86 tender conditions were rewritten to ensure the contract aligned with an Adani-owned power plant in Chhattisgarh. The party asserts that this shift will cost the people of Uttarakhand approximately 1.6 lakh crore rupees over 25 years. Government officials have not yet responded to these allegations.
What to watch next
- Potential government response to the corruption allegations.
- Developments in the ongoing state tender process.
- Political impact of these claims on the upcoming Assembly elections.
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Jairam Ramesh
1 quote“Across BJP-ruled States in the country, an open loot of the people's rights is under way to benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi's capitalist friend Adani.”
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…the Uttarakhand and Central governments, the Adani group, as well as the BJP, on the Congress' allegations. Congress general secretary (communications) Jairam Ramesh said, "If Modani wants it, nothing is impossible! Across BJP-ruled States in the country, an open loot of the people's rights is under way to benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi's capitalist friend Adani. A fresh example of this has emerged in Uttarakhand." "To buy electricity for 25 years from Adani's power plant in Chhattisgarh, the Uttarakhand BJP government scrapped the proposed joint public sector project of…
Pawan Khera
1 quote“Just like the T-20 cricket team, BJP has a 420 team. This BJP team changed 84 out of 86 rules, then, based on these changed rules, the tender process was altered and the work was handed over to Adani”
In the article
…get an answer for this in the upcoming Assembly elections," Mr. Ramesh said in his post in Hindi. Congress' media and publicity department head Pawan Khera said PSU here stands for "Pushkar Selling Uttarakhand". " Just like the T-20 cricket team, BJP has a 420 team. This BJP team changed 84 out of 86 rules, then, based on these changed rules, the tender process was altered and the work was handed over to Adani ," he said at a press conference in New Delhi. In his statement, Mr. Khera said, "PM Modi's Modani model has now colonised the hill State of Uttarakhand, where a thermal power project originally conceived for State and…