Hindenburg: Cong calls for nationwide protests

New Delhi, NT Bureau: The Congress announced on Tuesday that it will organise public mobilisation campaigns over its demands for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Adani issue, a caste census and adherence to the Constitution in letter and spirit, as it held a key meeting on its preparedness for the upcoming Assembly polls.

Amid a raging row over Hindenburg's allegations, the opposition party also said it will hold a nationwide agitation on August 22 demanding SEBI chief Madhabi Puri Buch's resignation and a JPC probe into the Adani issue.

The assertions came after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge held a meeting with all party general secretaries, state unit chiefs and AICC state in-charges here to discuss organisational matters and various issues of national importance for election preparedness.

A resolution passed at the meeting said the Congress demands a JPC probe into the Adani "mega scam in which the prime minister is fully involved and in which the financial market regulator has now been found to have been severely compromised".

The demand for a caste census to be conducted by the Centre was also stressed. The Congress also called for full and genuine respect to the Constitution in letter and spirit, particularly its provisions on economic, social and political justice.