Rahul Gandhi has 'Rafale phobia', says Ravi Shankar Prasad

The BJP Sunday took a swipe at Congress President Rahul Gandhi for his remarks against the Prime Minister on the Rafale deal, accusing him of playing with the country's security in the most "irresponsible manner".

Dismissing Gandhi's allegations, Union Law Minister and BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said he was "lying shamelessly" on the fighter jet deal and has got "Rafale phobia".

"Rahul Gandhi has Rafale phobia...The kind of language he is using against the Prime Minister does not behove him," Prasad told reporters here.

Citing cases of alleged corruption involving members of the Gandhi family, Prasad said, "How many corruption charges were levelled against his father (Rajiv Gandhi) in the Bofors case?...What has been the corruption record of Indiraji (former prime minister), his grandmother? We have never used the kind of language he has used against Prime Minister Narendra Modi."
Reiterating the NDA government's claim that the basic price of Rafale negotiated by it was cheaper than what the UPA had agreed to, the senior BJP leader said, "Modi government's price is 9 per cent cheaper than UPA's and with all weapons loaded, it is 20 per cent less."
"Rahul Gandhi please don't play with the security of India... What he says in India is picked up by the Pakistani press the next day."