PM Modi slams Rahul Gandhi over alleged business partner's submarine contract

BHADOHI/BHOPAL: A day after media reports that Rahul Gandhi's business partner got defence deals under UPA, PM Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on him on Sunday.
Questioning Rahul's alleged association with UK-based firm 'Backops', Modi said the firm's name was akin to Gandhi's actions of indulging in 'back-office operations' rather than from the front.
Quoting reports, FM Arun Jaitley had said on Saturday that Rahul and Priyanka were directors in Backops Service, formed in 2002. In 2003, a company with the same name was formed in the UK with its directors as Rahul and his business partner US national Ulrik McKnight, who got an offset contract in the Scorpene submarine deal, Jaitley alleged.
On Sunday, while addressing rallies in MP and UP, Modi alleged that Rahul's scams were now being "unearthed from land, air and water" as it's now known that Congress leader's business partner in the UK firm bagged a submarine contract, despite having experience in liasoning. "Those who shuttled between Delhi and London to ensure their business partners bagged defence deals are now raising questions on the timing of the ban on Jaish chief Azhar Masood," Modi said in Bhadohi.
At another rally near Phulpur, using the moniker 'namdaar' for Rahul and his mother Sonia, Modi said: "Every time the 'namdaar' tries to malign me, he himself gets exposed.
Such naamdars of Congress are stuck in Amethi and Rae Bareli, but to solve business interests of partners, they run between Delhi and London. How can they ensure homes and toilets for the poor of the country?"
Not leaving an opportunity to cash in on the UN decision to designate Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Muhammed terrorist Masood Azhar as a global terrorist, Modi asked people to vote for him if they want "a nation without Naxalites and terrorists".