{"id":232676,"date":"2019-02-12T07:01:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T07:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=232676"},"modified":"2019-02-12T07:07:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T07:07:35","slug":"rafale-deal-unravelling-faster-than-government-thought-says-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rafale-deal-unravelling-faster-than-government-thought-says-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafale deal unravelling faster than government thought, says Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Monday said the Rafale deal is &#8220;unravelling&#8221; faster than the government thought, with issues such as &#8220;parallel negotiations&#8221; by the PMO and changes in the standard defence procurement procedure coming to the fore.<\/p>\n<p>The Opposition party&#8217;s attack on the government came after a report in The Hindu newspaper claimed that the deal between India and France involved &#8220;major and unprecedented&#8221; concessions from the Indian government, with critical provisions for anti-corruption penalties and making payments through an escrow account, dropped days before the signing of the inter-governmental agreement (IGA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Monday said the Rafale deal is &#8220;unravelling&#8221; faster than the government thought, with issues such as &#8220;parallel negotiations&#8221; by the PMO and changes in the standard defence procurement procedure coming to the fore. The Opposition party&#8217;s attack on the government came after a report in The Hindu newspaper claimed that the deal between India and France involved &#8220;major and unprecedented&#8221; concessions from the Indian government, with critical provisions for anti-corruption penalties and making payments through an escrow account, dropped days before the signing of the inter-governmental agreement (IGA).<\/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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232676","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=232676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}