06 June,2024 07:23 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Rahul Gandhi. File Pic
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah were "directly involved" in what he termed as the "biggest stock market scam" in which retail investors lost Rs 30 lakh crore, reported PTI. He demanded a joint parliamentary committee probe into it.
Addressing a press conference in Delhi, he also said stock markets rose after "fake" exit polls on Saturay and then crashed on Tuesday, June 4, the day Lok Sabha polls votes were counted.
As per the PTI report, 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.
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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, said the PTI report.
"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.
The counting of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections was held on Tuesday. According to the Election Commission of India, the BJP won 240 seats, much lower than its 2019 tally of 303.
The Congress, on the other hand, registered a strong growth, winning 99 seats. The INDIA bloc crossed the 230 mark, posing stiff competition, and defying all predictions of the exit polls.
Mumbai Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Winner's List: From Arvind Sawant to Naresh Mhaske, check big winners from Sena (UBT), BJP & more
Voters witnessed a neck-to-neck fight between Maha Vikas Aghadi and Mahayuti in Mumbai and Mumbai Metropolitan region as they vied for political supremacy. The results for all 10 seats of the Mumbai and MMR region are out with the Maha Vikas Aghadi winning big in the Mumbai Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
Maharashtra recorded a voter turnout of 61.33 per cent in the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 in five phases from April 19 to May 20.
As many as 5,70,06,778 voters out of 9,29,43,890 exercised their franchise in the five phases across Maharashtra. At 71.88 per cent, polling in the Gadchiroli-Chimur constituency was the highest, while Mumbai South registered the lowest turnout at 50.06 per cent.
Check the list of winning candidates party-wise and constituency-wise:
