"The Legislative Assembly of NCT of Delhi having its sitting in Delhi on 28 March 2023: Deeply distressed about · the retrograde path the Indian Democracy has been traversing on since 2014 and its inimical consequences for the polity, culture, society and the people of our great nation, · the Central Government’s continuous attempts to subvert all the institutions and law enforcing agencies including the Constitutional bodies through threats, coercions and allurements, · the Central Government, through such subversion, launching all-out and unconstitutional assault on political rivals, civil society activists, artistes, entrepreneurs and all those who are not aligned with its views and ideology, · prevalence of conditions in the Country that put the declared emergency of 1970s to shame, · the Central Government usurping the Constitutionally guaranteed rights of the people, · the new low unleashed by the ruling establishment in undermining the temple of democracy, Gravely concerned about · the Central Government’s method of ‘Rule by Terror’ resulting in all-round fear among the honest and patriotic business houses, · the social tensions engineered by the ruling establishment driving away prospective foreign investors, · the resultant hostile atmosphere leading to loss of investments and employment opportunities for India’s sons and daughters, · the wheels of growth coming to grinding halt, Taking note of the fact that · the Prime Minister singled out his close friend to dole out favours to the detriment of healthy competition and country’s progress, · the agencies of the Central Government were placed at the service of Gautam Adani to help him in unlawful and coercive acquisitions of ports, airports and other key infrastructure and national projects of strategic importance, · the lethal drug trade that is funding global terror and destroying the youth of our nation is facilitated through ports run by Gautam Adani, the close friend of Prime Minister, · the Prime Minister jettisoned time-honoured practice of taking media along on his foreign visits and instead preferred to take his close friend Gautam Adani along to facilitate secret deals, thereby seriously compromising national interest, · the Public Sector Banks, which put a million conditions before granting small amounts of agricultural and student loans, were arm-twisted into doling out thousands of crores of rupees of public money to Adanis which they are ever ready to waive-off, · the hard earned money of the public, looted through repeated steep hike in petrol/diesel/gas prices and exorbitant taxes is being used to fund the state sponsored fraud of Adanis and other agents of the regime, Expressing shock that · the Prime Minister is maintaining sepulchral silence in the wake of well known scam being put on record by Hindenburg Research, · the ruling establishment at the centre is trying to shamelessly equate a corrupt crony Gautam Adani with mother India, · Gautam Adani is plundering the natural resources of our mother land and wealth created by toiling people of our great nation with full knowledge and support from the Prime Minister, Urges upon the Hon’ble President of India to · initiate immediate steps to restore Rule of Law as guaranteed under the Constitution, · direct Narendra Modi Government to put an end to all unconstitutional means through which cronies are promoted and honest people are being persecuted, · send a Message to the Parliament of India to consider setting up of Joint Parliamentary Committee to probe the biggest ever scam committed by friend of the Prime Minister, with specific task of finding out who the real beneficiary of the Adani fraud is, · send a Message to the Speaker, Lok Sabha and Chairman, Rajya Sabha to ensure that the ruling party does not disturb the proceedings of the House and the opposition is allowed to express its views without being censored, Appeals to Hon’ble Supreme Court of India to · enlarge the scope of petition on electoral bonds issue in public interest to look into the possible re-routing of public money looted by Gautam Adani to party ruling at the Centre through electoral bonds and Calls upon the great people of our great nation to remain ever vigilant to thwart the sinister designs of ruling establishment to re-colonise us through cronies who are also into illegal drug trade the way the East India Company was into opium trade, to begin with."
Date
Session
4th session (part-I)
Remarks
The Resolution was put to vote and adopted by voice-vote.
Resolution Category
Assembly