New Delhi, April 29 -- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday attacked the Centre over the Great Nicobar Holistic Development Project, calling it "one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against the natural and tribal heritage of the country" and pledging to raise the concerns of local residents in Parliament.

"The government calls what it is doing here a 'Project.' What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away," said Gandhi in a post on X, where he also shared a video of himself travelling through the forest.

The project involves an international container...