New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi spent the weekend using an explosive French media report on the Rafale deal as ammunition against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, and he's not stopping now. The words "Commander-in-Thief" featured in a Monday afternoon tweet on the Congress boss's Twitter page.
But what's all this about, you ask? Here's the gist of it: Mediapart, a French media house, published a story Friday that quoted France's former president -- Francois Hollande -- as saying the Indian government "proposed" Anil Ambani's Reliance Defence as Rafale manufacturer Dassault Aviation's Indian partner (for the offset clause of the agreement). "We didn't have any say in the matter," Hollande said. "We didn't have a choice in the matter; we took the interlocutor who was given to us."
Hollande was the president of France when the Rafale deal was signed.
"The sad truth about India's Commander in Thief," Rahul Gandhi tweeted today, attaching this video.
Over the weekend, Gandhi called for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe, and accused Prime Minister Modi and Anil Ambani of carrying out a Rs 1,30,000 crore "surgical strike" on India's defence forces. At a press conference on Saturday, he said Hollande had effectively called Modi a thief.
24/09/18 India Today
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But what's all this about, you ask? Here's the gist of it: Mediapart, a French media house, published a story Friday that quoted France's former president -- Francois Hollande -- as saying the Indian government "proposed" Anil Ambani's Reliance Defence as Rafale manufacturer Dassault Aviation's Indian partner (for the offset clause of the agreement). "We didn't have any say in the matter," Hollande said. "We didn't have a choice in the matter; we took the interlocutor who was given to us."
Hollande was the president of France when the Rafale deal was signed.
"The sad truth about India's Commander in Thief," Rahul Gandhi tweeted today, attaching this video.
Over the weekend, Gandhi called for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe, and accused Prime Minister Modi and Anil Ambani of carrying out a Rs 1,30,000 crore "surgical strike" on India's defence forces. At a press conference on Saturday, he said Hollande had effectively called Modi a thief.
24/09/18 India Today
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