Rahul on Rafale deal: Modi corrupt, Sitharaman's France visit huge cover-up
Firing
a fresh salvo at Prime Minister Narendra
Modi over the Rafale
deal, Congress president Rahul
Gandhi alleged on Thursday that he was a "corrupt man" who
helped Anil Ambani pocket Rs 300 billion in the purchase of the fighter
aircraft.
Gandhi
demanded an investigation against the prime minister.
The
Congress president also described Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's trip to
France as part of a "huge cover-up" by the government.
His
attack at the government came a press conference following a report in the
French media that Dassault Aviation, the manufacturer of Rafale, had to choose
Ambani's firm Reliance Defence as its offsets partner in India as a trade-off
for getting the deal.
The
government has been insisting that it had no role in the Dassault's choice of
Reliance Defence.
Dassault
Aviation said in a statement that it has "freely chosen to make a
partnership with India's Reliance Group". Read
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