New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday took a swipe at the Modi government over the passage of the SHANTI Bill, saying it was “bulldozed” in Parliament not only for “TRUMP but also for ADANI”.
Congress general secretary in charge of communications, Jairam Ramesh, shared a screenshot of a media report on X, which claimed that the Adani group plans a nuclear energy foray after private firms get a go-ahead to enter the sector.
Parliament on Thursday passed the nuclear energy Bill, with the Rajya Sabha giving its nod to the legislation seeking to open the tightly-controlled civil nuclear sector for private participation.
“SHANTI was bulldozed through in Parliament not only for TRUMP (The Reactor Use Management Programme) but also for ADANI
(Accelerated Damaging Adhiniyam for Nuclear India),” Ramesh claimed.
The Congress on Saturday alleged that the SHANTI Bill was “bulldozed” in Parliament only to help Prime Minister Narendra Modi restore “SHANTI” with his “once good friend”.
Ramesh had said the SHANTI Bill does away with key provisions of the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, a concern raised in the United States’ National Defence Authorisation Act for 2026.
Stating that US President Donald Trump has just signed the National Defence Authorisation Act for the US fiscal year 2026, Ramesh had said in a post on X, “The Act is 3,100 pages long. Page 1,912 has a reference to the joint assessment between the United States and India on Nuclear Liability Rules.
“Now we know for sure why the Prime Minister bulldozed the SHANTI Bill through Parliament earlier this week that, among other things, did away with key provisions
of the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010, that had been passed unanimously by Parliament.”
“It was to restore SHANTI with his once good friend,” the Congress leader said, attaching a copy of the US Act in his post.
The SHANTI Act may well be called the TRUMP Act – The Reactor Use and Management Promise Act – Ramesh had claimed.