Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah were "directly involved" in what he described as the "biggest stock market scam" in which retail investors lost Rs 30 lakh crore, and demanded a joint parliamentary committee probe into it. Addressing a press conference here, he alleged that besides Modi and Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had also commented on the stock markets ahead of elections, which has never happened in the past. He said stock markets rose after "fake" exit polls and then crashed the day votes for the Lok Sabha polls were counted on June 4 with retail investors losing their investments.
"The common people of India lost Rs 30 lakh crore in the stock market on June 4...
We demand a JPC investigation into this biggest-ever stock market scam," Gandhi said. He alleged that people higher up in the BJP carried out this stock market scam and "Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Shah were 'directly involved'." "We want inquiry against Prime Minister Modi, Home Minister Shah and those who carried out the exit polls," he said.
The former Congress chief also posed a set of three questions, asking, "Why did the PM and HM give specific investment advice to the five crore families investing in the stock markets? Is it their job to give investment advice to the people?". "Why both interviews were given to the same media house owned by the same business group, which is also under SEBI investigations .
