{"id":424169,"date":"2021-07-05T08:30:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T03:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=424169"},"modified":"2021-07-05T08:44:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T03:14:39","slug":"cong-bjp-spar-as-french-media-says-judicial-probe-begins-into-rafale-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cong-bjp-spar-as-french-media-says-judicial-probe-begins-into-rafale-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cong, BJP spar as French media says judicial probe begins into Rafale deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP alleged on Saturday that Rahul Gandhi is acting as an agent of rival defence companies and being used as a &#8220;pawn&#8221;, and also claimed he and the Congress keep raking up allegations of corruption in the Rafale deal in an attempt to &#8220;weaken&#8221; India. <\/p>\n<p>At a press conference, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra also played down the appointment of a judge in France to lead a judicial investigation into the alleged corruption and favouritism in the Rs 59,000 crore deal, saying the development was outcome of a complaint by an NGO and should not be seen as a matter of corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP alleged on Saturday that Rahul Gandhi is acting as an agent of rival defence companies and being used as a &#8220;pawn&#8221;, and also claimed he and the Congress keep raking up allegations of corruption in the Rafale deal in an attempt to &#8220;weaken&#8221; India. At a press conference, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra also played down the appointment of a judge in France to lead a judicial investigation into the alleged corruption and favouritism in the Rs 59,000 crore deal, saying the development was outcome of a complaint by an NGO and should not be seen as a matter [&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-424169","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\/424169","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=424169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}