Following the developments that took place in Supreme Court on Wednesday over Rafale deal, Rahul Gandhi in a press conference on Thursday said, “Modi misused his office to benefit Dassault. Probe everybody including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”
A day after the Attorney General K.K. Venugopal, representing the central government told the Supreme Court that the Rafale files were stolen from the defence ministry on Wednesday, the Congress chief conducted a press conference at AICC office in New Delhi around 9:00 pm on Thursday.
Rahul Gandhi taking a dig at the centre said that the documents have disappeared “gayab ho gaya” like two crore jobs for youths, right price for farmers’ produces and the promised 15 lakh for everybody.
AG K.K. Venugopal had made the submission during the hearing on review petitions filed by various parties against its December 14, 2018 judgment in which it had refused to order a probe into the deal to procure 36 Rafale fighter planes from France.
Rahul Gandhi praised The Hindu, the newspaper which revealed about the classified Rafale documents in early February and attacked Prime Minister Modi saying, “Yes of course, take action on those involved in these missing documents case but also initiate an inquiry on the PMO making parallel negotiations,” reported ANI.
“Why can’t the Prime Minister himself conduct an investigation. If he feels he is not guilty, then why is he not holding an investigation on himself?” Gandhi asked.
“Rafale files disappeared. It was said that an investigation should be conducted against you (media) because Rafale files disappeared; but the person who was involved in Rs 30,000 crore scam, no investigation against him?” he said.
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