New Delhi, June 6 (UNI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the crash of the stock market on June 4, the day of election results, as he alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and two senior ministers advised people to buy shares saying “the market will shoot up on the day of counting”.
Addressing a press conference here, Gandhi said that it was for the first time in history that during election process, a Prime Minister, Home Minister and Finance Minister commented on the stock market.
“In fact, the PM had said 2, 3 and 4 times that the stock market will go up so people should buy now,” the Congress leader stressed.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that people should buy shares before June 4 as the stock market will skyrocket after election results are declared.
Gandhi said that more than Rs 30 lakh crore were lost on the day of counting while it had experienced a mega jump after the exit polls. “BJP’s internal survey and the intelligence agencies had predicted 200-220 seats for the BJP and they knew about it,” he added.
“Who lost the money,” Gandhi said, and added that all retail investors lost thousands of crores as they had bought shares on the advice of Prime Minister and other senior ministers.
“This is the biggest scam in the history of stock market,” Gandhi alleged.
