Like Bofors, arrange JPC for Rafale deal: Digvijaya to PM

Senior Congress chief Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to arrange a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe the Rafale fighter jet deal, just like the one which scrutinized the Bofors deal within the Nineteen Eighties.
The Rajya Sabha member alleged large-scale corruption within the type of fee of fee within the Rafale deal.
“France has started a probe in the Rafale case, but in India, where commission was paid, no inquiry is being conducted. If one compares the Rafale deal with the Bofors case, the then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi had, on his own, constituted a JPC,” Singh mentioned.

“If Modi has courage, he should constitute a JPC. We have a lot of questions and will get opportunity to raise them,” the Congress chief added.
Nobody might show a single cost in opposition to Rajiv Gandhi within the Bofors case, he mentioned.
The Bofors scandal associated to alleged fee of kickbacks in a deal to buy howitzer weapons from the Swedish producer Bofors AB.
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi just lately demanded a JPC probe into alleged corruption within the fighter jet deal.
A French decide has been appointed to steer a “highly sensitive” judicial probe into suspected “corruption” and “favouritism” within the Rs 59,000 crore Rafale cope with India, French investigative web site Mediapart reported final week.

Singh, in the meantime, additionally hit out on the Centre over the rise in gas costs, claiming it impacted the center class severely at a time when the tax assortment from industrialists and enormous company homes has gone down.
Modi is somebody who takes choices in haste and thinks later, he mentioned, citing examples such because the dealing with of the COVID-19 pandemic, demonetization and withdrawal of the particular standing of Jammu and Kashmir.