Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad also hit back, accusing Rahul Gandhi of working as a lobbyist for a competitive aircraft supplier company. “From where did he get the internal email of an Airbus executive? Airbus itself is under cloud for deals during the UPA regime,” he underlined. He said Rahul was levelling baseless allegations.
Springing to PM’s defence, Arun Jaitley questioned how many more lies will be peddled to save a “sinking dynasty”. He alleged that many of the senior leaders of the grand old party lack the courage and moral authority to advise the dynasts to “change course”. Defending the Rafale deal, he said it had saved the exchequer thousands of crores of public money; yet a new falsehood was being perpetrated on a daily basis.