Congress president Rahul Gandhi has questioned Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on why no investigation was made on the Rafael jets purchase scam. He added that defense minister Nirmala Seetharaman has been hiding behind AIADMK MLAs. Yesterday there was a discussion regarding Rafael jets in the assembly and during this, Rahul Gandhi said that instead of 126 jets only 36 were purchased on an urgent basis.
He asked whether the decision to change the count of jets was made by PM himself or in discussion with air force. Besides he also went on to question on why the budget of 526 crores per jet went increased to 16100 crores, and added that only 10 days before taking the contract
From HAL to Ambani, he had ventured into aviation itself and slammed defense minister Nirmala Seetharaman for not being able to answer his questions and hiding behind AIADMK MLAs and said there are lots of loopholes in the Rafael jets purchase agreement.
