Rafale Deal's new French media report intensified politics
  • 2 years ago
A day after a French journal alleged that kickbacks were paid between 2007 and 2012 to a middleman involved in the Rafale deal, senior BJP leader Sambit Patra said that INC (Indian National Congress) stood for I need Commission. Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Sambit Patra lashed out at the Congress over alleged corruption during its regime before 2014 and sought Rahul Gandhi's response to the fresh revelation by French investigative journal Mediapart. While Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera asked to why the Modi government did not agree to a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Rafale deal. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi too lashed out at the BJP on Twitter. The NDA government had inked a fresh deal on September 23, 2016, to procure 36 Rafale jets from Dassault Aviation after a previous deal under the UPA regime did not fructify. Watch this video.