The Congress today alleged a Rs 62,000 crore scam in a power project in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district, accusing the BJP-led Central and Bihar governments of illegally favouring the Adani Group.
AICC Media and Publicity Department chairman Pawan Khera told media that the Bihar government handed over 1,050-acre land in Pirpainti to Adani for just Re 1, allowing the company to produce electricity using Bihar’s coal and sell it back to the state at around Rs 7 per unit.
Khera said former union Power Minister and senior BJP leader RK Singh’s recent statements confirmed the Congress’ charges. “RK Singh admitted that Adani Power would earn Rs 25,000 crore annually from this project. He also revealed that both Central and state governments amended policies, including the SHAKTI scheme, to benefit Adani,” Khera alleged.
He accused the Modi and Nitish governments of altering rules between May and July 2025 converting a solar project into a thermal one, issuing a tender without coal linkage, diluting environmental norms and ignoring expert objections.
“Every regulation was bent to suit Adani. This is not a ‘double-engine government’ but a ‘double corruption government’,” Khera said.
The Congress leader also accused the BJP of “silencing” Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. “For a year, Nitish has been forced to sign blank files that BJP leaders later fill with their own decisions,” he claimed.
Khera said the issue would be taken “from Parliament to the streets” and that a future Grand Alliance government in Bihar would investigate the alleged scam.
The Congress released ten questions demanding the NDA clarify the policy changes, environmental relaxations and tendering process, including why the SHAKTI policy was amended on May 7 and why emission norms were relaxed on July 11, this year.
Calling the deal a “betrayal of Bihar’s people,” Khera said public resources had been handed over to a private company. “This is loot in the name of development,” he said, asserting that the people of Bihar had already expressed their anger through heavy polling in the first phase of the Assembly elections.