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After the government in a surprise admission during the review of the Rafale deal in Supreme Court said files of the deal were stolen from the Defence Ministry a slug- fest has started again between the BJP and the Congress.
After Congress president Rahul Gandhi sought to probe Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the stolen papers, the government replied to the Congress charges. No it was not Defence Minister Nirmala Sithraman who replied to Rahul Gandhi’s claims , but Finance minister Arun Jaitley and Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
Jaitley said Gandhi’s “facts were completely wrong” in Rafale deal. “The government has repeatedly made its position clear. The Supreme Court has spoken on it. The petitioners are taking one more chance. The CAG has already analysed it. No dynast can claim that he is above the Supreme Court or the CAG and that their verdicts and findings don’t apply on them,” Jaitley said briefing the mediapersons in New Delhi.
“[In] today’s comment made by the Congress party and its president…the facts were completely wrong,” said the finance minister adding, “The Congress party has, in the last few days through statements of its senior leaders, corned itself in a difficult situation. They are getting high TRPs on Pakistan television. But there is revulsion as far as domestic opinion in India is concerned.”
