{"id":247177,"date":"2019-02-15T07:06:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T07:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=247177"},"modified":"2019-02-15T07:06:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T07:06:30","slug":"cag-has-allowed-itself-to-become-a-joke-chidambaram-on-rafale-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cag-has-allowed-itself-to-become-a-joke-chidambaram-on-rafale-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"CAG has allowed itself to become a joke: Chidambaram on Rafale deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Former finance minister P Chidambaram on Thursday slammed the CAG report on the Rafale deal as &#8220;useless&#8221;, saying the institution has allowed itself to become a &#8220;joke&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The report contains no useful information or conclusion and its motive is to hide the truth, the senior Congress leader told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated his party&#8217;s demand for a joint parliamentary committee probe into the deal, saying only it can call for all relevant records.<\/p>\n<p>The CAG is not God, he said, apparently rejecting the ruling BJP&#8217;s contention that the national auditor&#8217;s report should be the final word on the contentious issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Former finance minister P Chidambaram on Thursday slammed the CAG report on the Rafale deal as &#8220;useless&#8221;, saying the institution has allowed itself to become a &#8220;joke&#8221;. The report contains no useful information or conclusion and its motive is to hide the truth, the senior Congress leader told reporters. He reiterated his party&#8217;s demand for a joint parliamentary committee probe into the deal, saying only it can call for all relevant records. The CAG is not God, he said, apparently rejecting the ruling BJP&#8217;s contention that the national auditor&#8217;s report should be the final word on the contentious [&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":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247177","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=247177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}