public wealth now at a rate much higher than what the Congress has ever done, is yet to match the latter in terms of guile !
The Congress could be expected never to commit the kind of silly blunders the Modi govt has done in the Rafale scam !
For instance, the Congress might never have steamrolled ahead with what certainly appears to be a triple fold increase in the purchase price of fighter aircraft as the BJP has done !
The Modi govt is perhaps secure under the impression that the ceaseless din Narendra Modi makes with his grating voice from podium after podium would continue to deceive a large section of North Indians !
The BJP govt, in September 2016 a while after Modis visit to France, announced a price of Rs 58000 crores for outright purchase of 36 Rafale aircraft. In Nov 2017, Nirmala Sitharaman announced in response to questions from journalists that her govt has secured a ^better price^ than the UPA did for the Rafale. But when journalists asked her the exact price, the defence minister fumbled and then looked at the defence secretary. The defence secretary too did not reveal the price.
Upon this, the defence minister announced that her ministry would soon give out the exact price. However, though journalists kept calling her ministry repeatedly in the weeks that followed, there was no response.
And now, Nirmala Sitharaman announces in Parliament that the exact price of the Rafale cannot be revealed as there is an IGA between India and France that prevents it !
Re: The BJP, which has been stealing
by piri on Feb 10, 2018 07:39 PM
Pray..........was Nirmala Sitharaman and her defence secretary and the entire Modi govt unaware of the supposed bar by this so called IGA on revealing the Rafale price when they revealed the notional price in September, 2016 ?
Was the Modi govt and the defence minister unaware of this supposed provision in the IGA when Sitharaman promised to convey the price to journalists ??
And...did the defence ministry remain ignorant about the IGA barring the revelation of the price throughout the period after the defence ministers press conference when her ministry refused to respond to the repeated calls of journalists ?
