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Union finance minister Arun Jaitley strongly defended the Rafale jet deal and sought to counter Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s charges by asking him 15 questions . Jaitley held the Congress party guilty on three counts in his tweets
The Congress Party and its leader, Shri Rahul Gandhi, are guilty on three counts: firstly, the UPA delayed the deal by over a decade comprising national security;
— Arun Jaitley (@arunjaitley) August 29, 2018
Secondly, every fact that Shri Rahul Gandhi and the Congress Party has spoken on pricing and procedure are completely false, & thirdly, Congress Party’s effort of raising these issues is to further delay a defence procurement so that India’s defence preparedness further suffers.
— Arun Jaitley (@arunjaitley) August 29, 2018
In a Facebook blog, the finance minister claims that the Congress has launched a false campaign “on Rafale aircraft deal based on peddled untruth has been casting a cloud on the Inter-Governmental agreement & seriously compromising national security.”
