Hold the PM, Sonia Gandhi accountable in VVIP chopper scam, says BJP: Highlights

New Delhi: Ten days before the Budget session of Parliament begins, the opposition has been handed a new controversy to attack the Congress-led UPA government with and the BJP has quickly termed the Italian chopper deal now under a cloud as the "second Bofors scam".

Senior leader Ravi Shankar Prasad addressed the media today demanding that the deal be reviewed.

Highlights of his press conference.

• Was the Ambassador of Italy summoned to Defence Ministry and impressed upon the need for information?
• Did Mr Antony send some senior officer of the Defence Ministry to get information?
• Certainly this arrest of the CEO is the culmination of a process of investigation - why did the govt not know anything?
• Let the govt explain why an inquiry was not done earlier... Who was trying to save whom? We want to know.
• We will hold the PM, Sonia Gandhi accountable.
• We demand that fresh supply be stopped and the deal be reviewed.
• Does Govt inaction have to do with company being Italian?
• I find it very interesting that  the UPA finds a way to get kickbacks on all projects started by the NDA - be it the 2G scam, the Commonwealth Games, and now this.