Stock market crash: Rahul Gandhi says retail investors lost Rs 30 lakh crore, calls for probe against PM Modi, Amit Shah, exit pollsters
The Congress leader said stock markets rose after "fake" exit polls and then crashed the day Lok Sabha polls votes were counted on June 4. Retail investors lost Rs 30 lakh crore and this is the "biggest stock market scam", he said.
Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi
NEW DELHI: 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 also said stock markets rose after "fake" exit polls and then crashed the day Lok Sabha polls votes were counted on June 4. Retail investors lost Rs 30 lakh crore and this is the "biggest stock market scam", Gandhi said.
"For first time we noted that during polls, Prime Minister Modi, Home Minister Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman commented on the stock market," he said.
Why did the prime minister and home minister give investment advice to people, Gandhi asked and alleged that BJP leaders had information that exit polls were wrong. "We want JPC probe into biggest stock market scam," he said.
People higher up in the BJP carried out this stock market scam and Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Shah were directly involved, the Congress leader alleged.
"We want inquiry against Prime Minister Modi, Home Minister Shah and those who carried out the exit polls," he said.
प्रधानमंत्री, गृहमंत्री, उनके लिए काम कर रहे एक्जिट पोल्स्टर्स और मित्र मीडिया ने मिलकर हिंदुस्तान के सबसे बड़े ‘स्टॉक मार्केट स्कैम’ की साजिश रची है।
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) June 6, 2024
5 करोड़ छोटे निवेशक परिवारों के 30 लाख करोड़ रु डूबे हैं।
हम मांग करते हैं कि JPC गठित कर इस ‘क्रिमिनल एक्ट’ की जांच की जाए। pic.twitter.com/jMp5lxwRXg
