‘Hit job on Adani was Chinese vengeance’: BJP leader's claim over Hindenburg row
Hindustan TimesSenior lawyer and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Mahesh Jethmalani has alleged that the Hindenburg Research report against billionaire Gautam Adani's conglomerate was a “hit job” by China, seeking “vengeance” for losing out on contracts for developmental projects. “Now that there's an established Chinese hand behind the Hindenburg hatchet job on the Adani group it behoves the GOI to probe the linkages between the loudest political voices that pre and post the publication of the Hindenburg report savaged the government for its 'crony capitalism,” Jethmalani said. “The hit job on the Adani group was Chinese vengeance for losing out on strategic mining and infrastructure project bids, one of the most crucial of which was the bid for the Israeli port of Haifa,” the top lawyer alleged. “Shockingly some Indian politicians seemed deeply aggrieved by Adanis Haifa port success- a strategic acquisition key to the viability of IMEC- an economic corridor of India, the Middle East and Europe meant to compete with and improve upon China's BRI-Belt and Road Initiative.