On behalf of the government, Defence Minister Maonhar Parrikar today listed for parliament the alleged proof that the Congress designed a corrupt deal to buy AgustaWestland helicopters, and then ducked taking any real action.

"What we could not do in Bofors, may be we can do it in AgustaWestland. Ex-Air Chief got chillar for changing chopper criteria," Parrikar said. 




"The Agusta scam could have been stopped in 2012," the minister alleged in the Lok Sabha, where Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul were present.  


The Defence Minister suggested there's no great mystery. "The Congress made money, took chances with national security," he said in a lengthy debate.

Highlights of what the defence minister said...

-- Manohar Parrikar says that Christian Michel writes to the PM that Jyotiraditya Scindiya has all the information.

-- Behti Ganga main haath dhone walon ke piche inquiry chal rahi hai.

-- I can't reveal everything CBI has found, it will impede investigation. But they are very serious.

-- Though ED and CBI doesn't come under me, I am monitoring the progressof the investigation personally.

-- Jyotiraditya Scindia took total liberties with the truth by saying that the Rafael deal that they were doing cost 10 billion dollars. No deal had taken place.

-- I don't know where they get the money from?


-- President's security was jeopardised. I won't let nation's security come under jeopardy'

-- We have put all the contracts in the pipeline with Finmeccanica on hold. We are not buying anything from them.
   
-- But the Armed Forces have raised questions about the equipment they have need parts produced by subsidaries of Finmeccanica.
  

-- Should our ships be without weapons? Should our helicopters not fly because one or more parts are manufactured by the company?


-- Congress walkout in Parliament as Defence Minister continues with allegations on the UPA government in the AgustaWestland case

-- The airport office, where all the files are kept. That place mysteriously caught fire. The reason what caused the fire will be known after an investigation. But the people who had kept the files under a lock and key, three files were saved. And all the three files are related to AW101.