Page 19 - Rafale Deal

India proposed Reliance Defence for Rafale deal, we had no choice: Hollande

Hollande's statement contradicts Indian government's claim that the agreement between Dassault and Reliance was a commercial pact and the government had nothing to do with it

HAL, Dassault had differences when UPA was negotiating Rafale deal: Sources

The UPA government in 2012 started negotiations with Dassault Aviation to buy 126 Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA)

'Rafale Minister' Sitharaman caught lying, must resign: Rahul Gandhi

Congress President Rahul Gandhi Thursday accused Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman of "lying" on HAL's capability to build Rafale aircraft and demanded her resignation. The Congress chief took to Twitter to attack Sitharaman, alleging that her position as the defence minister has become untenable as a former chief of the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has "nailed her lie". "The RM (Rafale Minister) tasked with defending corruption has been caught lying again. The former HAL Chief, T S Raju, has nailed her lie, that HAL didn't have the capability to build the RAFALE. Her position is untenable & she must resign," he tweeted and tagged of a media report on the former HAL chief's assertion. The Congress has alleged that the government caused loss of over Rs 41,000 crore to the exchequer and endangered national security by bypassing the state-run HAL in favour of some businessman "friends" for offset contract in the Rafale deal. Under India's offset policy, foreign ...

Rafale deal: Cong leaders meet CAG, demand early report on 'irregularities'

The Congress delegation handed a memorandum to the CAG and said it expects the truth to prevail after the report on the Rafale deal is made public

BJP, Congress trade barbs on Rafale deal, Vijay Mallya's escape from India

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman maintained the NDA government purchased the fighter jets 9 per cent cheaper than the UPA government

UPA to blame for HAL's exclusion from Rafale deal: Nirmala Sitharaman

Earlier in the day, UPA-era Defence Minister A K Antony attacked Sitharaman for 'tarnishing' HAL's image over her remarks that the defence PSU 'did not have required capability to produce Rafale'

SC adjourns hearing in plea seeking stay on Rafale fighter jet deal

Petitioner advocate M L Sharma told the bench that he wants to file some additional documents in the case and therefore the matter should be adjourned

Shekhar Gupta: Rafale has been turned into a scam of stupidity & arrogance

Rafale deal is no scam. It's just a glaring example of the BJP government's pusillanimous, unimaginative, over-cautious and unsuccessful handling of defence purchases

Rafale deal: Congress seeks JPC probe, says PM 'showing no interest'

He also said a probe by JPC would bring out the whole truth in the multi-billion dollar fighter jet deal

Pointless to engage Opposition on Rafale deal, says Nirmala Sitharaman

Sitharaman said the government decided to go for procuring only two squadrons of Rafale jets as an emergency measure

Transparency on Rafale deal: The govt must explain these key issues

The govt's response to the Opposition's campaign against the purchase of 36 Rafale fighters from France has not been open enough, encouraging the impression that it has something to hide

Congress in a fix as Rafale deal yet to attract widespread public attention

Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Gulam Nabi Azad lashed out at the Modi government for allegedly censoring the media on the issue

'Such emergency buys made in past too': IAF Chief Dhanoa backs Rafale deal

Dhanoa said the purchase of Rafale jets would held the Indian Air Force which is reeling under a severe shortage of fighter aircraft

IAF officials being forced to praise new Rafale deal: Prashant Bhushan

The country has never witnessed a defence scam of such magnitude, said the activist

Congress slams Modi on Rafale, says govt 'compromising national security'

Taking on BJP for mocking Rahul Gandhi on his pilgrimage to Kailash Mansarovar, Surjewala said those who try to 'obstruct' anybody's pilgrimage, they become the part of 'curse and sin'

Common sense & the Rafale deal

One is that India has agreed to pay substantially more than warranted. The other is that there has been crony capitalism at work in the Indian manufacture part of it.

Supreme Court to hear plea seeking stay on Rafale jet deal next week

A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud considered the submissions of advocate M L Sharma that his plea be listed for urgent hearing

Supreme Court may hear PIL seeking stay on Rafale deal next week

On August 18, Congress president Rahul Gandhi had constituted a six-member task force to look into the alleged scam

Rafale jet deal price 20% less than UPA govt's, says FM Arun Jaitley

Over the past few days, Congress leaders have held press conferences across the country to highlight the Rafale "scam"

Congress rejects Jaitley's contention on Rafale deal, demands probe

'You left out HAL, violated the Official Secrets Act, did not seek the mandate of CCS and conducted no price determination for reducing the aircraft purchase from 126 to 36 aircraft,' says Congress