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Modi sabotaging nation's interest to favour crony capitalist friends: Congress

  •   Thu, Nov 15 2018 10:00:34 PM

New Delhi, Nov 15 (IANS): The Congress on Thursday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of sabotaging country's interest to favour his "crony capitalist friends" and claimed the agreement to purchase the 36 French Rafale jets from France was in violation of Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP).

Reiterating its demand for a JPC probe into the controversial deal, the opposition party also sought to know from the Prime Minister why he set a higher "benchmark price" and waived the bank guarantee or French government's sovereign guarantee.

"The Prime Minister enhanced the benchmark price for Rafale by Euro 3 billion (Rs 22,743 crore). Why did he set a higher benchmark price of Euro 8.2 Billion (Rs 62,166 crore) from Euro 5.2 billion (Rs 39,422 )? Why did he waive the sovereign guarantee requirement," Congress spokeperson Randeep Singh Surjewala asked at a press conference.

"The Prime Minister has gone as far as to sabotage the nation's interests in favour of his crony capitalist friends," he said.

The Congress leader said the only forum to investigate the acts of "omission, commission and corruption" in the "biggest defence scam" of India is to have a Joint Parliamentary Commission (JPC) probe.

Surjewala, later, in a statement said the negotiating team had a serious dispute on the fixing of benchmark price, which was referred to the then Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar.

"Parrikar as the head of Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) and the three armed forces chiefs also didn't agree and decide on the higher benchmark price of Euro 8.2 billion (Rs 62,166 crore). DAC referred it to the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) headed by PM Modi and he in CCS accepted the higher benchmark price," he said.

Surjewala also sought to know why National Security Advisor Ajit Doval was allowed to negotiate with the French, and not the negotiations committee of IAF and the Defence Ministry.

"Did PM Modi ask him to do so and for what reason?" he asked.
  

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  • DON, Udupi

    Fri, Nov 16 2018

    PM should be immediately replaced with Nalin kumar Kateel to stop further sabotage. :)

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Fri, Nov 16 2018

    Ambani, Adani & Ramdev ...

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  • SMR, Karkala

    Fri, Nov 16 2018

    In the Supreme court, Air Force officials had said that no fighter planes were inducted into the Air Force after 1985. Whereas the truth is that the Sukhoi aircraft was included in the IAF in 2004
    Air force officials told the Supreme Court that no fighter jets have been included in the fleet after 1985.
    Fact: Sukhoi was not manufactured in the year 1985
    Fact: Sukhoi was included in the air force in the year 2004.
    Fact: According to the Air Force records, the fleet of 42 Sukhoi aircraft joined the Air Force in 2012
    It should be remembered that then there was a United Front government at the Centre formed with the support of the Congress. HD Deve Gowda was the Prime Minister and Mulayam Singh Yadav was the Defence Minister. Then there was a new agreement with Russia in October 2000. It was decided that Russia will provide 140 and modern Sukhoi aircraft to India and transfer technology too.
    It was included in the terms of agreement with Russia that Sukhoi Aviation was to manufacture them in India in partnership with Hindustan Aeronautical Limited (HAL). After the agreement, in 2000, technology was transferred to India. After that, the first fleet of India-made Sukhoi aircrafts was inducted into the IAF in 2004. According to the Indian Air Force records, in December 2012, 42 fleets of India-made Sukhoi aircrafts were inducted in the Air Force.
    1. Did IAF officers lie to the Supreme Court at the behest of the Modi govt?
    2. How does IAF Air Vice Marshal J Chalapathi and Air Marshal VR Chaudhary is eligible to continue to be head of the IAF if they don't know which are the aircrafts which are being manufactured in India?
    3. The petition on 'Rafale jet' scam is on pricing, why the Supreme Court is wasting its valuable hours on the history of IAF?
    4. Do Supreme Court Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi knowledge is so poor that he needs to rely IAF officers to know the history of modern fighter jet indouction into service can be easily available on its official portal?
    Jai Hind

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  • sahil, Mangaluru

    Thu, Nov 15 2018

    we should accept it congress totally failure to prove single clue about rafale .

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  • Valerian Menezes, Kota

    Thu, Nov 15 2018

    PM seem to have steam rolled all the opinions of other members of the negotiating committee !!

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  • Swamy, Mangalore

    Thu, Nov 15 2018

    Congress has full right to ask BJP but not vice versa. Because congress brought independence to India and made BJP, RSS, Modibaba and his 40 chors Indian and gave the right to fight elections as Indian citizens as per Indian constitution. Unfortunately now BJP's chor count has gone up beating Alibaba.

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