SC has ‘accepted’ there was corruption in Rafale deal, claims Rahul

TIL Desk/National/Amethi(UP)/ Buoyed by the Supreme Court order allowing petitioners seeking a review of the Rafale judgment to rely on leaked documents, Congress president Rahul Gandhi claimed the SC has made it “clear” that Prime Minister Narendra Modi “committed a theft”.

Rahul Gandhi then challenged Modi to a debate on the Rafale military aircraft deal, which the Congress claims involved corruption, a charge repeatedly rejected by the government. Gandhi recalled a recent interview by the prime minister, in which Modi had said the Supreme Court had given a clean chit to his government on the Rafale deal.

“Now the SC has made it clear that ‘chowkidarji’ (watchman) has committed a theft,” Gandhi told after filing his nomination papers from the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency. He claimed the apex court has “accepted that there is some corruption in Rafale”.