Former finance minister P. Chidambaram lambasted the Narendra Modi government\u2019s response to questions over the Rafale deal before reiterating that the French fighter aircraft\u2019s purchase would be scanned in detail after a change of guard in Delhi.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn any other country, a parliamentary committee would immediately be formed to look into such a matter. But in India, we have to beg the government: \u2018Please let us look into the issue\u2019,\u201d Chidambaram said, referring to the twin aspects of \u201cnumber of aircraft\u201d and \u201cpricing\u201d, which he called the \u201csuspicious pointers\u201d surrounding the deal.<\/p>\n
The senior Congress leader broached the Rafale issue during a discussion on the launch of his latest book, Undaunted \u2013 Saving the Idea of India, at a programme organised by the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) and The Telegraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former finance minister P. Chidambaram lambasted the Narendra Modi government\u2019s response to questions over the Rafale deal before reiterating that the French fighter aircraft\u2019s purchase would be scanned in detail after a change of guard in Delhi. \u201cIn any other country, a parliamentary committee would immediately be formed to look into such a matter. But in India, we have to beg the government: \u2018Please let us look into the issue\u2019,\u201d Chidambaram said, referring to the twin aspects of \u201cnumber of aircraft\u201d and \u201cpricing\u201d, which he called the \u201csuspicious pointers\u201d surrounding the deal. The senior Congress leader broached the Rafale issue […]<\/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-264554","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\/264554","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=264554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}