Congress accepts Jaitley's dare on Rafale debate, asks govt to fix time

January 01, 2019 09:04

Congress on Monday said in Lok Sabha that it is ready for a debate on the Rafale jet deal on Wednesday.

Jaitley ji has thrown a challenge ... we are ready for a debate on January 2. Please decide a time, Congress leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge said.

He made these remarks soon after the House gave its nod to additional gross expenditure of Rs 85,948.86 crore during the current fiscal ending March 2019.

At 2.00 pm, when the House was to take up discussion on Supplementary Demands for Grants, Kharge repeated his demand for a joint parliamentary committee to probe the Rafale deal.

At this, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said Kharge should begin the discussion on the issue immediately and asserted that the government was ready to give a reply.

Kharge, he said, was running away from discussion.

Stressing that there should a discussion on Rafale deal, Jaitley said he would prove that the Congress party was spreading lies over the deal.

When the House was about to be adjourned for the day, Kharge reminded Speaker Sumitra Mahajan of the debate and sought a time for it.

Mahajan said she will decide on the timing but Kharge cant extract a decision on the date and time immediately.

You keep your challenges to yourself. Dont challenge me, an apparently peeved Mahajan said.

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