{"id":448844,"date":"2021-11-10T09:31:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T04:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=448844"},"modified":"2021-11-10T10:04:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T04:34:21","slug":"as-bjp-targets-it-on-rafale-congress-asks-why-didnt-govt-order-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/as-bjp-targets-it-on-rafale-congress-asks-why-didnt-govt-order-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"As BJP targets it on Rafale, Congress asks why didn\u2019t govt order probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP and Congress on Tuesday engaged in a war of words over claims in a French portal report that commissions were paid between 2007 and 2012 for securing the Rafale aircraft deal.<\/p>\n<p>While the BJP targeted the opposition party over Mediapart\u2019s report that Dassault Aviation, the manufacturer of Rafale fighter jets, paid 7.5 million euros to an alleged middleman between 2007 and 2012, when the UPA was in power, the Congress hit back by asking why the government has not ordered a joint parliamentary committee probe yet. <\/p>\n<p>The BJP said the INC (Indian National Congress) should be renamed \u2018I Need Commission\u2019, alleging that the Congress\u2019s dissatisfaction with the cut on offer was behind its failed negotiations when the UPA was in power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP and Congress on Tuesday engaged in a war of words over claims in a French portal report that commissions were paid between 2007 and 2012 for securing the Rafale aircraft deal. While the BJP targeted the opposition party over Mediapart\u2019s report that Dassault Aviation, the manufacturer of Rafale fighter jets, paid 7.5 million euros to an alleged middleman between 2007 and 2012, when the UPA was in power, the Congress hit back by asking why the government has not ordered a joint parliamentary committee probe yet. The BJP said the INC (Indian National Congress) should be renamed \u2018I [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448844","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=448844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}