{"id":409653,"date":"2021-04-07T11:14:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T05:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=409653"},"modified":"2021-04-07T12:11:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T06:41:02","slug":"rafale-bribe-charge-bjp-says-it-is-completely-baseless-middleman-whose-name-surfaced-linked-to-cong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rafale-bribe-charge-bjp-says-it-is-completely-baseless-middleman-whose-name-surfaced-linked-to-cong\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafale bribe charge: BJP says it is &#8216;completely baseless&#8217;, middleman whose name surfaced &#8216;linked&#8217; to Cong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP on Monday dismissed as &#8220;completely baseless&#8221; the allegations of corruption in the Rafale deal, stressing that the Supreme Court had rejected a demand for a probe in the purchase of the fighter aircraft and the CAG also found nothing wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question about the Congress&#8217; attack on the Modi government over the bribe allegations, senior BJP leader and Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said at a press conference that the opposition party made it a big issue in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls but lost badly.<\/p>\n<p>He said the allegations of corruption were &#8220;completely baseless&#8221; and suggested that a report in the French media about the alleged financial irregularity in the deal may be due to &#8220;corporate rivalry&#8221; in that country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP on Monday dismissed as &#8220;completely baseless&#8221; the allegations of corruption in the Rafale deal, stressing that the Supreme Court had rejected a demand for a probe in the purchase of the fighter aircraft and the CAG also found nothing wrong. Responding to a question about the Congress&#8217; attack on the Modi government over the bribe allegations, senior BJP leader and Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said at a press conference that the opposition party made it a big issue in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls but lost badly. He said the allegations of corruption were &#8220;completely baseless&#8221; and [&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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409653","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=409653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}