After facing criticism over hosting industrialist Gautam Adani at the Invest Rajasthan summit, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday said he would welcome any business tycoon bringing investments to the State and generating employment through industrial activities.
Mr. Gehlot, feeling the heat after his supporters stymied a Congress Legislature Party meeting recently, had deployed a mix of defiance and deference by rolling out the red carpet for Mr. Adani, often at the receiving end of former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s criticism, on Friday, after naming a flyover a day earlier marking Mr. Gandhi’s ongoing ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.
As the Opposition latched on to his perceived defiance, the Chief Minister told reporters on the concluding day of the summit, “Be it Gautam Adani or any Adani, or Ambani, we will welcome all of them here... We want employment, we want investment.” He pointed out that the summit was not a private event and the 3,000 delegates who attended it could have any political leanings.
