{"id":365616,"date":"2020-07-30T12:28:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T06:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=365616"},"modified":"2020-07-30T13:30:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T08:00:58","slug":"rahul-gandhi-congratulates-iaf-questions-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rahul-gandhi-congratulates-iaf-questions-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi congratulates IAF, questions govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rahul Gandhi has stuck to his guns on the Rafale deal amid the euphoria whipped up by the Centre and a section of the media on Wednesday, resurrecting all the questions the Congress leader had asked during Narendra Modi\u2019s first term as Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Rahul tweeted: \u201cCongratulations to IAF for Rafale. Meanwhile, can the Government of India answer: 1. Why each aircraft costs Rs 1670 crore instead of Rs 526 crore? 2. Why 36 aircraft were bought instead of 126? 3. Why was bankrupt Anil given a Rs 30,000 crore contract instead of HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited)?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Congress president in the run-up to the 2019 parliamentary election, Rahul had described Rafale deal as a scam, saying that the established defence procurement procedures were violated by the Prime Minister\u2019s Office and the high prices were approved overruling objections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rahul Gandhi has stuck to his guns on the Rafale deal amid the euphoria whipped up by the Centre and a section of the media on Wednesday, resurrecting all the questions the Congress leader had asked during Narendra Modi\u2019s first term as Prime Minister. Rahul tweeted: \u201cCongratulations to IAF for Rafale. Meanwhile, can the Government of India answer: 1. Why each aircraft costs Rs 1670 crore instead of Rs 526 crore? 2. Why 36 aircraft were bought instead of 126? 3. Why was bankrupt Anil given a Rs 30,000 crore contract instead of HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited)?\u201d As Congress president [&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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365616","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\/365616","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=365616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}