Congress, DMK MPs come out of the Lok Sabha on NOD given to Energy Project along with Pakistan border

The Lok Sabha is a session on March 12, 2025. Photo: through Sansad tv PTI

Congress and members of Dravidian Munnetra Kazgam (DMK) moved out of the Lok Sabha on Wednesday to express their dissatisfaction with the answer given by Union Minister Pralhad Joshi on the approval given to a renewable energy project near the India-Pakistan border.

Asking a supplementary question during the question hour, Congress leader Manish Tiwari said that national security and energy security will have to go by hand. Although he did not name a particular group, his question was in relation to a news report Mentor Last month, claiming that the government had changed the security rules along the Gujarat-Pakistan border to allow the Adani Group to set up renewable energy parks.

Mr. Tiwari claimed that the mixed renewable energy project would run for one kilometer of the International Border (IB) and said that according to the security protocol, any major infrastructure project should be at least 10 km from IB. He asked whether any exemption was given in the proposed project.

New and Renewable Energy Minister Shri Joshi said that all approval for any proposal and license centers, state and relevant agencies have been given after receiving approval.

Troubled by the answer, Congress members participated in the well of the House and raised slogans on national security. When Speaker Om Birla refused to focus on his opposition, Congress and DMK members staged the walkout.

Shell companies in Mauritius

Separately, Congress also launched the alleged link of Adani group with some shell companies in Mauritius. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a state visit to the island of island.

Congress General Secretary (Communication) Jayer Ramesh targeted the government for “failed” to investigate allegations of money laundering, in a post on X. He said that Mauritius is an important financial center and a long time of India. He said, “However, the relationship was tarnished by reliable allegations that shell companies in Mauritius were used by Adani and his colleagues to attach large-scale money-laundering, round-tripping and tax evasion,” he said.

Mr. Ramesh claimed that the Supreme Court-monitor SEBI investigation used to take two months time, “Partly due to failure to get information from foreign courts involved in Adani Magasam”.

“Instead of encouraging their counterparts, to share the necessary information to prosecute the financial scholar of their close friends, we are afraid that he will continue to protect them through the defaults and commission acts,” said Mr. Ramesh.

He also alleged that “this wholesale capture” of the Indian economy and its major institutions explains why the biggest corruption scam in Indian history has not been closed yet “.

“It explains how elections have been tampered with in Maharashtra and elsewhere. The answer can only be done on a full scale by one JPC, ”said the Congress leader.