{"id":138584,"date":"2017-11-16T10:51:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T10:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=138584"},"modified":"2017-11-16T10:51:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T10:51:31","slug":"rafale-deal-neither-overpriced-nor-controversial-iaf-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rafale-deal-neither-overpriced-nor-controversial-iaf-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafale deal neither overpriced nor controversial: IAF chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa on Thursday said the Rafale deal is not overpriced.<\/p>\n<p>Rafale deal is a pact between India and Dassault Aviation SA&#8217;s to purchase 36 Rafale fighter jets from France. <\/p>\n<p>The IAF chief&#8217;s statement comes days after Congress party said that a &#8220;huge scam&#8221; was brewing in the Centre over the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference here, IAF chief said, I think we have negotiated a better deal in the Rafale contract than what we did in MMRCA (Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft). There is no controversy. What is the controversy I don&#8217;t understand? It is not overpriced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He further said that the government has negotiated a very good deal.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress has alleged that Modi government promoted the interest of Prime Minister&#8217;s capitalist allies, by signing the Rafale aircraft agreement for purchase of 36 fighter aircrafts without following the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP).<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference of Tuesday, Congress party spokesman Randeep Surjewala said that the he aircraft were being bought at an &#8220;inflated price&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa on Thursday said the Rafale deal is not overpriced. Rafale deal is a pact between India and Dassault Aviation SA&#8217;s to purchase 36 Rafale fighter jets from France. The IAF chief&#8217;s statement comes days after Congress party said that a &#8220;huge scam&#8221; was brewing in the Centre over the deal. Addressing a press conference here, IAF chief said, I think we have negotiated a better deal in the Rafale contract than what we did in MMRCA (Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft). There is no controversy. What is the controversy I don&#8217;t understand? It is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}