We do business in 22 states, not all are with BJP: Gautam Adani counters Congress criticism

India

oi-Deepika S

Gautam
Adani
said
his
company
took
off
in
the
80s
when
the
Congress’s
Rajiv
Gandhi
was
Prime
Minister.

New
Delhi,
Jan
07:
Industrialist
Gautam
Adani
on
Saturday
countered
Congress
leader
Rahul
Gandhi’s
allegations
that
the
Modi
government
has
been
favouring
the
industrialists
relating
to
bank
loans
and
infrastructure
projects.

Appearing
on
Aap
Ki
Adalat,
hosted
by
Rajat
Sharma,
Adani
said,
“You
can
never
get
any
personal
help
from
Modi
ji.
You
can
speak
to
him
about
policies
in
the
national
interest,
but
when
a
policy
is
framed,
it
is
for
all,
not
only
for
the
Adani
group,”
he
said.

Refuting
allegations
of
favour,
Adani
said,
“We
want
to
make
maximum
investments
in
every
state…
Adani
group
is
working
in
22
states,
and
all
these
states
are
not
BJP-ruled.
We
are
working
even
in
Left-ruled
Kerala,
in
Mamata
didi’s
West
Bengal,
in
Naveen
Patnaik
ji’s
Odisha,
in
Jaganmohan
Reddy’s
state,
even
KCR’s
state.”

Adani
also
said
that
his
success
began
when
the
Congress
was
in
charge
of
the
country.

“I
got
three
big
breaks
in
my
life.
First,
in
1985
during
Rajiv
Gandhi’s
rule,
when
Exim
policy
allowed
our
company
to
become
a
global
trading
house.
Second,
in
1991,
when
PV
Narasimha
Rao
and
Dr
Manmohan
Singh
opened
up
the
economy,
and
we
entered
into
public-private
partnership
mode.
And
third,
during
Narendra
Modi’s
12-year-long
rule
in
Gujarat,”
Adani
told
journalist
Rajat
Sharma.

“Gujarat
is
investor-friendly,
not
Adani-friendly,”
Adani
stressed.

Rahul
Gandhi
has
been
maintaining
that
businessmen
“close
to
PM
Modi”
that
is
Gautam
Adani
and
Mukesh
Ambani
rose
in
the
list
of
the
wealthiest
in
the
world
“like
a
rocket”
at
the
cost
of
poor.