Cong, BJP in Rafale dogfight as Rahul assaults deal all over again | India Information

NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi released a fresh attack on the authorities on Saturday around the Rafale deal, provoking a sharp reaction from Union minister Piyush Goyal who claimed the opposition bash is welcome to contest the 2024 elections on the difficulty and claimed that numerous Congressmen had confided that the previous Congress chief’s obsession with the deal is detrimental the party.
The refreshing controversy cropped up following Rahul cited media reviews which claimed that the CAG had submitted its functionality audit on defence offset contracts to the Centre with no point out of any offset offers relevant to the obtain of Rafale fighters.
“Revenue was stolen from the Indian exchequer in Rafale,” Rahul tweeted though quoting Mahatma Gandhi: “Real truth is 1, paths are many.”

In a sharp response to the Congress member’s opinions, railway minister Piyush Goyal claimed that people inside Congress feel that Gandhi was obsessed with the Rafale deal to clean off his father’s “sins”.
“Many of @RahulGandhi’s Congress colleagues confide in non-public that Rahul’s obsession with Rafale to clean off his father’s sins is harmful the social gathering. But if anyone is wanting to self-destruct, who are we to complain? We invite him to struggle 2024 elections on Rafale,” Goyal tweeted.

Meanwhile, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman claimed that the CAG report on defence offset performance will be tabled in the next session of Parliament.
“The C&AG Report No 20 of 2019… Defence Offset Efficiency was scheduled to be tabled in Parliament through the spending budget session (2020). The session finished, before date, because of to Covid. Now the report will be put in the upcoming session. The contents will be recognised only immediately after that,” Sitharaman stated in a series of tweets.

Rahul proceeds to get up the Rafale deal even just after the Supreme Court gave a clean chit to the government in the buy of the fighter jets. The deal was aspect of Congress’ marketing campaign in the operate-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
India has presently obtained the initial set of 5 Rafales from France in July this year.