Former Union Minister Arun Shourie took on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government on the new revelations in the Rafale controversy that saw former French president Francois Hollande claim that India favoured industrialist Anil Ambani's Reliance Defence for the multi-million dollar fighter-jet contract. "France's rebuttal has been cleverly-worded. France does not contradict what Hollande has said," Mr Shourie said.