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#ModiMustResign trends on Twitter over Adani-Sri Lanka row: ‘India’s Modani government’

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi at the budget session of the parliament in New Delhi on February 1, 2022. (ANI Photo/SansadTV)

By: Shubham Ghosh

THE social media in India was on Wednesday (15) flooded with posts criticising the Narendra Modi government over allegations that the prime minister put pressure on Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the president of Sri Lanka, to award a green power project to the Adani Group of Indian businessman Gautam Adani.

#ModiMustResign was also trending on Twitter.

Mocking the Indian government as “Modani government”, public interest lawyer and activist Prashant Bhushan said in a tweet, “So the Chairman of the Sri Lankan electricity authority tells their enquiry commission that the Sri Lankan President told him that India’s Modani govt was insisting that Adani be given the 5K Cr project.This in itself is a bigger scam than Bofors. #ModiMustResign”

Ni Diwakar Rao, a lawmaker from the southern Indian state of Telangana which is ruled by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, one of the opponents to Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, called it “Utterly Disgraceful!”

He said, “PM Modi shamed India as he influenced Srilankan government officials to allot power projects to Goutham Adani company. Utterly Disgraceful!”

Jogu Ramana, another lawmaker from Telangana said on the social media, “PM Modi and NDA Government troubled India, ruined India and shamed India enough.  India needs to get rid of this NPA (Non Performing Alliance) Govt ASAP.”

Here are other reactions that poured in on Twitter over the Adani Group-Sri Lanka episode:

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