They are claiming that India paid twice the price UPA paid per rafale. Government has kept the content secretive and hasn't revealed the offset, kaveri engine consultation fees of 1 billion dollars etc. So, Congress is trying to confuse people by bringing in Reliance and overpayment
Matlab sharam to inko aati nahi.Rafael deal: Congress alleges ‘huge scam’
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NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 14, 2017 17:21 IST
UPDATED: NOVEMBER 14, 2017 17:33 IST
The Congress on Tuesday alleged that a “huge scam is brewing” in the Rafael deal and accused the Modi government of “promoting the interests of Prime Minister’s crony capitalist friends.”
Addressing a press conference, Congress communications chief Randeep Surjewala said the government violated the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) and bypassed the interests of PSU Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).
“On April 10, Prime Minister Modi visits France and announces the deal for purchase of 36 Rafael fighter aicraft in flyaway condition. This was done unilaterally without following the DPP, without any inter-governmental agreement and in the absence of India’s Defence Minister. However, Anil Ambani, owner of Reliance Defence Limited was present in France during the Prime Minister's visit,” alleged Mr Surjewala.
The Congress leader claimed that while the UPA government had signed the Rafael deal as a joint venture between its French maker, Dassault Aviation, and India’s HAL, the current government cancelled the entire process on 30 July, 2015.
This in turn, helped Reliance Defence Limited as they entered into a joint venture with Dassault, he said.
Mr. Surjewala said while India signed the $8.7 billion deal on September 23 last year, just 10 days later, on October 3, 2016, Reliance Defence Limited entered into a joint venture with the French fighter plane maker.
“It is time for the PM to answer why the planes were bought at such an inflated costs? Is it not true that as per UPA negotiated price, cost of one plane was Rs. 526.1 crores where as under NDA, the plane is costing Rs. 1570 crores? Why was transfer of technology for HAL not insisted? And finally, has the joint venture between Dassault and Reliance Defence been cleared by the Union Cabinet?” asked the Congress leader.
When asked why the Congress was raising the issue now, especially since all the facts of the deal were in public domain, Mr. Surjewala said, “No, we had raised it then as well. Former Defence Minister A.K. Antony, Manish Tewari and myself had raised it outside as well in Parliament. We were told that nothing has been signed. The deal has been signed last September and since then we have trying to gather information.”
www.thehindu.com/news/national/rafael-deal-congress-alleges-huge-scam/article20444680.ece
HAL is worldwide known not to be effective. I think there was an indian politic order to use a private company instead of the heavy bureaucratic HAL.
Private companies have lower threshold of government responsibility and also can be a source of election funding without compromising security.
My argument is 25million investment on Su30, not only import, it includes both the cost of Desi and firangi maal...
Yup we should indeginous Su30MKI no matter what
You mean like the way China did it?
Any way possible...even if Russians don't like it..
Ineffectiveness of HAL is negative propaganda by lobbysts.
It's not so easy.
Work has been put in for some time now. It didn't take long for USA, France or UK to develop engine, why will it take long for India? Chinese engine project has progressed well and they are now about to be independent in engine manufacturing. They are no longer dependent on Russian engines.
India can produce engines, our brains are able to do such complicated things but the problem is our bureaucrats, politicians and lobby.
France is not stupid to give high end technology which is difficult to make. They will only give those technology which is easy to make or in which india has progressed well.
Negative, in terms of metallurgy, they are not so ahead or not so far..... In which engine you're talking, Indian missiles use Indian propulsion(Nirbhay, Target drone ), none of their engine are variable cycle or feature flat rate like ours ....we have patented our single crystal super alloy(3rd gen) way before Chinese did. China is flying their engine with Russian super alloy.
It's the result of 70 years of improvements !
Metallurgy is the weak link of Indian aircraft propulsion system, which has improved from years, but yet to certify the production of that alloy which has been patented and claimed 3rd gen.
India also has been putting rigorous efforts since 1991. Special rigour has been applied during 1998-2004 and then from 2014-today. During 2004-2014, around 5 years were wasted due to political reasons. However, overall more than 20 years of effective development has taken place.
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