Rafale Middlemen

Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Nawab Malik demanded that the centre should investigate claims made by a French portal that Rafale makers paid 7.5 million Euros to middlemen between 2007 and 2012.

NDTV has found more evidence that Indian agencies ignored allegations that French company Dassault may have paid crores of rupees to middlemen spanning both the BJP-led NDA 1.0 government and the Congress-led UPA.

A day after a French judge ordered a probe into alleged "corruption and favouritism" in the Rs 59,000-crore Rafale deal with India, the Congress on Sunday hit out at the Narendra Modi government over its silence on the matter.

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has said the Congress, which was in power at the Centre when the Rafale fighter deal was first proposed, sat on it till 2007 because it was unable to find a "middleman" with which the party can set up an "equation".

Amid a political slugfest over the Rafale fighter jet deal, Union minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday hit out at Congress president Rahul Gandhi over his "chor" jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and wondered whether the Congress chief's "behaviour" could be called "shameless".

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today hit back at Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for questioning the Rafale fighter aircraft deal, saying unlike during Congress regimes when middlemen ruled the roost, there was no "Quattrocchi" in the contract for the fighter jet.

Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Nawab Malik demanded that the centre should investigate claims made by a French portal that Rafale makers paid 7.5 million Euros to middlemen between 2007 and 2012.

NDTV has found more evidence that Indian agencies ignored allegations that French company Dassault may have paid crores of rupees to middlemen spanning both the BJP-led NDA 1.0 government and the Congress-led UPA.

A day after a French judge ordered a probe into alleged "corruption and favouritism" in the Rs 59,000-crore Rafale deal with India, the Congress on Sunday hit out at the Narendra Modi government over its silence on the matter.

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has said the Congress, which was in power at the Centre when the Rafale fighter deal was first proposed, sat on it till 2007 because it was unable to find a "middleman" with which the party can set up an "equation".

Amid a political slugfest over the Rafale fighter jet deal, Union minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday hit out at Congress president Rahul Gandhi over his "chor" jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and wondered whether the Congress chief's "behaviour" could be called "shameless".

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today hit back at Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for questioning the Rafale fighter aircraft deal, saying unlike during Congress regimes when middlemen ruled the roost, there was no "Quattrocchi" in the contract for the fighter jet.