PM faces open book Rafale exam in LS, will he show up or send proxy: Rahul

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Congress president Rahul Gandhi has said Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces an open book exam on the Rafale deal in Parliament on Thursday and asked if he will show up at the exam or send a proxy.

He also sent a set of four questions to the prime minister for the “exam”, asking him why an amount of Rs 1,600 crore was paid for each aircraft instead of Rs 560 crore and why the contract was given to “AA”, an abbreviation used for the Reliance Group’s Anil Ambani, and not the public sector Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).

“Tomorrow, the PM faces an Open Book Rafale Deal Exam in Parliament. ”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?,” the Congress chief said on Twitter.

He later tweeted another question, terming it as “The Missing Q3!”. Gandhi said he had held back the question as the Lok Sabha speaker had said he could not talk about the Goa tape.