{"id":233972,"date":"2019-02-14T05:01:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T05:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=233972"},"modified":"2019-02-14T05:27:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T05:27:56","slug":"rahul-should-apologise-withdraw-allegations-on-rafale-deal-says-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rahul-should-apologise-withdraw-allegations-on-rafale-deal-says-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul should apologise, withdraw allegations on Rafale deal, says BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday cited a purported \u201cdissent note\u201d by some officials who negotiated the Rafale deal to assert that it demolished Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s claim of better pricing and faster delivery of the jets, and dismissed the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) report on the multi-billion pact as a \u201ccover-up\u201d that was \u201cnot worth the paper\u201d it was written on.<\/p>\n<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) responded by demanding an apology from Rahul Gandhi, as the CAG had said in its report that the National Democratic Alliance deal was 2.86 per cent cheaper than the United Progressive Alliance one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday cited a purported \u201cdissent note\u201d by some officials who negotiated the Rafale deal to assert that it demolished Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s claim of better pricing and faster delivery of the jets, and dismissed the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) report on the multi-billion pact as a \u201ccover-up\u201d that was \u201cnot worth the paper\u201d it was written on. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) responded by demanding an apology from Rahul Gandhi, as the CAG had said in its report that the National Democratic Alliance deal was 2.86 per cent cheaper than the [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233972","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=233972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}