{"id":232705,"date":"2019-02-12T11:48:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T11:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=232705"},"modified":"2019-02-12T11:48:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T11:48:09","slug":"rafale-deal-row-modi-acted-as-a-middleman-for-anil-ambani-claims-rahul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rafale-deal-row-modi-acted-as-a-middleman-for-anil-ambani-claims-rahul\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafale deal row: Modi acted as a middleman for Anil Ambani, claims Rahul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress president Rahul Gandhi Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of acting as a middleman of Anil Ambani in the Rafale jet deal, as he cited an e-mail to claim the businessman was aware of the MoU before India and France signed it.<\/p>\n<p>Ambani&#8217;s knowledge of a defence deal under preparation, which even the then defence minister had said he was not aware of, is in violation of the Official Secrets Act, Gandhi alleged at a press conference, and said this &#8220;puts Modi in jail&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Only Modi could have told Ambani about the deal in advance, he alleged.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is treason. He (Modi) is doing what spies do,&#8221; Gandhi said.<\/p>\n<p>Ambani had met the French defence minister days before the signing of the deal during Modi&#8217;s visit to France in 2015, Gandhi said, quoting from an e-mail written by an Airbus executive to a French official.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress president also rejected the Comptroller and Auditor General report on the Rafale deal, and dubbed it &#8220;Chowkidar Auditor General&#8221; report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress president Rahul Gandhi Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of acting as a middleman of Anil Ambani in the Rafale jet deal, as he cited an e-mail to claim the businessman was aware of the MoU before India and France signed it. Ambani&#8217;s knowledge of a defence deal under preparation, which even the then defence minister had said he was not aware of, is in violation of the Official Secrets Act, Gandhi alleged at a press conference, and said this &#8220;puts Modi in jail&#8221;. Only Modi could have told Ambani about the deal in advance, he alleged. &#8220;This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-232705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232705","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}