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On Sonia turf, Modi slams Congress: No Quattrocchi uncle in BJP govt deals

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PM Narendra Modi offers prayers in Prayagraj, where he took stock of the preparations for the 2019 Kumbh Mela (Photo:PTI)

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
In his maiden visit to Rae Bareli as the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on Sunday tore into the Congress on Sonia Gandhi's home turf, saying the party was “agitated” and telling lies as there was no “Quattrocchi uncle” or Christian Michel in the BJP government's defence deals and slammed it for trying to create “distrust” against the judiciary.

This was the Prime Minister's first public comments after the Supreme Court gave a clean chit to the BJP government in the Rafale deal.

Modi said the earlier regimes were marred by kickbacks in defence deals. 

Referring to the AgustaWestland chopper case,