Rahul created unnecessary tamasha over Rafale deal: Goa CM


Panaji, Nov 15 (IANS): Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Friday that former Congress President Rahul Gandhi tried to create unnecessary "tamasha" (ruckus) over the Rafale deal, and the Supreme Court's rejection of a review petition questioning the agreement proved that there was no substance to the allegations.

"The Supreme Court has proved now that there was no substance to the allegations. Rahul Gandhi had unnecessarily made an issue out of it for his own advantage and had made a 'tamasha' here," Sawant told reporters.

"Goans and people across the country know how clean our then Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was. His contribution to the state and the nation during his small tenure of two and a half years as Defence Minister, there has been no stain on his political career," Sawant also said.

The "tamasha" which Sawant referred to was in connection with Gandhi's controversial "courtesy" visit to Goa this January to meet the late Parrikar, who was then ailing with a terminal disease.

Soon after the visit, the BJP had accused the former Congress President of trying to use the courtesy call to rake up the Rafale controversy in the run up to the general elections.

On Thursday, Parrikar's elder son Utpal Parrikar also hailed the Supreme Court verdict, while accusing Gandhi of playing political games by taking advantage of his ailing father.

"#RafaleVerdict is out and I hope this is a good learning experience for @RahulGandhi . I can give benefit of doubt that he did all this as part of Ill-planned political game, just the way he used visit to my ailing father for politics," Utpal tweeted after the Supreme Court on Thursday, turned down the review petition seeking a probe into the multi-billion rupee Rafale fighter jet deal with the French government.

Parrikar, who served as Defence Minister from 2014-17, also served as Goa Chief Minister on four occasions, before he died in March this year following a prolonged battle with cancer.

  

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  • Anil Mangalore, Mangalore

    Fri, Nov 15 2019

    Mr. CM, please define tamashaa?
    Your party without sufficient ministers formed the government and on top of it, swallowed the MLA's of your supporting party. Your party will not survive long..

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  • Rational thinker, Mangalore

    Fri, Nov 15 2019

    Congress has put 9 serious and legitimate questions to central government on the Rafale deal and the government is yet to provide satisfactory answers to prove the transparency in the whole issue.

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  • Mangalorean, Mangalore

    Fri, Nov 15 2019

    Mr Sawant, it's too early to rejoice as JPC is still pending.

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  • anthony, Mangalore

    Fri, Nov 15 2019

    If this was Tamasha then why did Modi dismiss the CBI Chief, why did he not agree for a JPC Probe which would have cleared his name, where is the CAG report, why was Ani Ambani introduced in the last minute in preference to HAL.

    Dal Meh Zaroor Kala Hai. If Bofors could be investigated throughly then why not Rafala. I am sure the country will get to know the truth with change of Govt.

    Until then we will have to keep listening to lies by the BJP and their paid media.

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  • Francis, Shirva/UK

    Fri, Nov 15 2019

    Tamasha made by you and your party, you people think you can get over it by using government machinery and fake media support. Your party will be accountable for that tamasha and corrupt deal and will pay price for that in peoples court.

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