The BJP and Congress on Tuesday engaged in a war of words over claims in a French portal report that commissions were paid between 2007 and 2012 for securing the Rafale aircraft deal.
While the BJP targeted the opposition party over Mediapart’s report that Dassault Aviation, the manufacturer of Rafale fighter jets, paid 7.5 million euros to an alleged middleman between 2007 and 2012, when the UPA was in power, the Congress hit back by asking why the government has not ordered a joint parliamentary committee probe yet.
The BJP said the INC (Indian National Congress) should be renamed ‘I Need Commission’, alleging that the Congress’s dissatisfaction with the cut on offer was behind its failed negotiations when the UPA was in power.
