As slugfest on Rafale deal gets murkier, Anil Ambani says truth will prevail

August 29, 2018 22:11

On a day when Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Congress president Rahul Gandhi traded fresh charges on the Rafale deal, Anil Ambani, who has won the controversial contract from the French firm, today said truth will prevail.

Terming the allegations as "baseless, ill-informed and unfortunate," Ambani said, "truth alone will prevail" as the charges are driven by "malicious vested interests and corporate rivals."

Ambani was responding to a question from the media as to why he chose to exclude the Congress president in the Rs 5,000-crore defamation case filed by his company on the Rafale deal.

"I have personally written to Gandhi stating that the Congress has been misinformed, misdirected and misled on the Rafale deal by malicious vested interest and corporate rivals," he told reporters after announcing completion of the sale of Rinfra's power business in Mumbai to the Adani group for Rs 18,800-crore.

Parrying another question whether if need be would he file a defamation case against Gandhi as well in the case, he said "all the allegations are as baseless, ill-informed and unfortunate."

In a series of exchanges between, Jaitley and Gandhi accused each other with the former calling the latter as "peddling in untruth", and the latter responding by terming it as "the great robbery".

-- PTI

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