Alleging conflict of interest, the Congress on Sunday requested Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Rajiv Mehrishi to recuse himself from auditing the deal to purchase 36 Rafale fighter aircraft as he, as the then Finance Secretary, was part of the negotiations.
Rajiv Mehrishi
New Delhi:
Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal today accused the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of being “complicit in the irregularities’’ in the Rafale fighter jets deal and alleged “the bungling was happening at the highest level with his direct or indirect complicity and consent”. Asked what steps would the Congress take if Mehrishi presents the CAG report on the deal in Parliament, Sibal evaded a direct reply and said that the exposes on the issue will not stop here.
Meanwhile, Union minister Arun Jaitley alleged that the Congress was casting aspersions on the institution of CAG based on “falsehoods” after the party urged Mehrishi to recuse himself from auditing the Rafale deal.
The Opposition party also said that it would be improper on the part of Mehrishi to present the report in Parliament and said that it had written to him to recuse himself. The CAG report on the controversial deal is likely to be tabled in Parliament on Monday.
Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal today accused the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of being “complicit in the irregularities’’ in the Rafale fighter jets deal and alleged “the bungling was happening at the highest level with his direct or indirect complicity and consent”. Asked what steps would the Congress take if Mehrishi presents the CAG report on the deal in Parliament, Sibal evaded a direct reply and said that the exposes on the issue will not stop here.
Meanwhile, Union minister Arun Jaitley alleged that the Congress was casting aspersions on the institution of CAG based on “falsehoods” after the party urged Mehrishi to recuse himself from auditing the Rafale deal.