A day after Rafale tweet, Rahul visits Goa CM
January 29, 2019 12:44
Congress President Rahul Gandhi arrives at Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar's office in Panaji. Rahul may simply be paying a courtesy visit to the ailing CM, but it is interesting to note that the visit comes a day after his Rafale tweet.
Just yesterday, the Congress president, who is holidaying in Goa, tweeted, "30 days since the Goa Audio Tapes on RAFALE were released. No FIR or enquiry ordered. No action against the Minister either! "It's obvious that the tapes are authentic & that Goa CM, Parrikar, is in possession of explosive RAFALE secrets, that give him power over the PM."
Rahul Gandhi has maintained that the 'Goa audio tapes' released by a Congress legislator is authentic and chief minister Manohar Parrikar is in possession of "explosive Rafale secrets'. Rahul, who is in the state with mother Sonia Gandhi said that the files gave Parrikar an edge over Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
To bring you up to speed, on January 2, an audio clip released by the Congress had alleged that Parrikar in a December 2018 cabinet meeting admitted to holding a bunch of files related to the Rafale deal. The tape was a conversation between a former Congress MLA Vishwajit Rane and an unidentified person named 'X'. Rahul had also made an attempt in Lok Sabha's Winter Session to play an audio tape.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had said the tape was "false and fabricated', and asked the Congress president if he could authenticate it.
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