Bofors Issue

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  "We Will Meet In Court Of Law": Assam Chief Minister Slams Rahul Gandhi

  Reacting to Rahul Gandhi's tweet targeting Congress turncoats over the Adani issue, Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said that it was "our decency to never have asked you about Bofors and National Herald scams and we will meet in a court of law".

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  BJP's Bofors Retort As Congress Derides Rafale 'Shastra Puja'

  Union minister Rajnath Singh's "Shastra puja" in front of the first Rafale fighter jet handed over by France on Tuesday, has generated a debate. While the Congress has slammed it as "tamasha"(drama) and "superstition", Mr Singh's cabinet colleague and BJP chief Amit Shah has lashed out, questioning the Congress's choice of issues to criticise the B...

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  JPC Probe On Rafale Deal Not Needed, It Isn't 2G Or Bofors: Nirmala Sitharaman

  Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today rejected the demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to look into the Rafale jet deal, saying it is unlike the 2G Spectrum or Bofors issues where aspects like the money trail surfaced.

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  BJP Ally Shiv Sena Backs Opposition Demand For JPC Probe Into Rafale Deal

  BJP ally Shiv Sena Wednesday supported the Opposition demand in Lok Sabha for a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probe into the Rafale issue and drew a parallel with the alleged Bofors scam, claiming that people say Rafale aircraft is good but the deal is bad.

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  Shashi Tharoor Flays Media For Not Investigating Rafale Issue

  Congress MP Shashi Tharoor Wednesday said the Rafale issue is 20 times bigger than the Bofors issue but the media is "not giving any importance like before".

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  27 Years After Bofors, Report May Be Finalised This Budget Session

  A parliamentary panel looking into the Bofors gun deal for almost 27 years is likely to finalise its report on the issue in the current Budget Session, members said.

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  'PM Modi Fears Rahul Gandhi's Transformed Image': Sharad Pawar

  NCP chief Sharad Pawar today alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi "feared" the "transformed image" of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi due to which the BJP was raking up old issues such as Bofors to "defame" the Gandhi family.

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  Congress Backs President's Reported Comments on Bofors Issue

  Congress today backed the reported controversial remarks of President Pranab Mukherjee on Bofors issue to a Swedish daily and said allegations of kickbacks were levelled by opposition parties to defame the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

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  President's Remarks on Bofors Case Not Relevant to Sweden Visit: External Affairs Ministry

  The reported controversial remarks of President Pranab Mukherjee on Bofors issue to a Swedish daily have no bearing on his upcoming tour of Sweden, the first State visit, External Affairs Ministry said in New Delhi today.

• Why was goverment silent for a year, asks BJP about chopper scandal

  Describing the Italian chopper deal as one having the "makings of a second Bofors scam", BJP on Wednesday sought to find out why the government has not taken any action on the matter till now and said it will raise the issue strongly during the Budget Session of Parliament.

• Sushilkumar Shinde's remark on coal draws flak from Opposition

  Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde's remark that the coal issue will soon fade away from public memory as it happened in the case of the Bofors controversy, has drawn flak from the opposition. While the BJP took a dig at the party, saying the coal scam will see the end of Congress' rule at the Centre, the CPI said that the party should not take...

• Coal issue, like Bofors, will soon be forgotten: Sushilkumar Shinde

  Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde today said the coal issue will soon fade away from public memory as it happened in the case of the Bofors controversy.