Yesterday, Rahul Gandhi also challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a 20 minute one-on-one debate on Rafale issue.
Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi continued to attack the BJP government over the Rafale deal on Twitter. Yesterday, Gandhi also challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a 20-minute one-on-one debate on the Rafale issue. He repeatedly asked Narendra Modi to answer four questions on the deal regarding the number of aircrafts, pricing and more.
Gandhi took to Twitter to say, "Tomorrow, the PM faces an Open Book #RafaleDeal Exam in Parliament." He also gave the questions in advance but while there were only three questions, the numbering suggested there were four.
Tomorrow, the PM faces an Open Book #RafaleDeal Exam in Parliament.
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) January 2, 2019
Here are the exam questions in advance:
Q1. Why 36 aircraft, instead of the 126 the IAF needed?
Q2. Why 1,600 Cr instead of 560 Cr per aircraft.
Q4. Why AA instead of HAL?
Will he show up? Or send a proxy?
Twitterati noticed this and trolled him on the same. Union defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman hit out and said, "A student who fails in the classroom boasts and challenges from outside."
A student who fails in the classroom boasts and challenges from outside. https://t.co/YOEUIN4JGT
— Nirmala Sitharaman (@nsitharaman) January 2, 2019
However, Gandhi posted the third question after a few hours and also mentioned why he had withheld it. He wrote, "I had held back Q3 because Madam Speaker had said, “no talking about the Goa tape”! But the missing Q3 has become as controversial as Rafale:) So on popular demand.."
His question 3 to Modi was regarding a Rafale file which was found in Manohar Parrikar's bedroom.
The Missing Q3!
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) January 2, 2019
I had held back Q3 because Madam Speaker had said, “no talking about the Goa tape”! But the missing Q3 has become as controversial as Rafale:) So on popular demand:
Q3. Modi Ji, please tell us why Parrikar Ji keeps a Rafale file in his bedroom & what’s in it? https://t.co/6WdiN487HJ
As per the Congress, the government had finalised an overpriced deal which would benefit Anil Ambani, whose firm Reliance Defence was recommended as an offset partner for Dassault. However, both Dassault and the government have denied the allegations levied by the Congress.
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