Pass or Ra-fail? Rahul mocks govt on Rafale deal with Amul cartoon

July 24, 2018 23:04

In a fresh salvo at the government over the Rafale deal, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had personally re-negotiated the agreement with France and none of the four revolving defence ministers had any inkling about it.

Gandhi, who has been relentlessly demanding that the government make the cost of the fighter jet public, also alleged that in not having a stable defence minister, PM Modi got space to personally re-negotiate the Rafale deal with France.

Since 2014, India has had four revolving Raksha Mantris. Now we know why. It gave the PM space to personally re-negotiate RAFALE with the French, the Congress chief tweeted along with a cartoon of Amul captioned Pass or Ra-fail?.

Hitting out at the PM for his silence over the aircraft deal, Gandhi said despite having four Rafale mantris, none of them knew what transpired in France during the negotiations. India had signed an inter-governmental pact with France in September 2016 for procurement of 36 Rafale jets.

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