'Rahul provoking armed forces against government'

'Rahul provoking armed  forces against government'

New Delhi: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday rejected Congress President Rahul Gandhi's charge that Prime Minister Narendra Modi ran parallel negotiation for the Rafale deal and accused him of provoking the armed forces against the government. "Today I object to what Rahul has said — he was telling Air Force pilots and officers 'look what Prime Minister is doing to you'. What does this mean, what is going on in his mind? Does he want to provoke them? Does he want to make them stand up against the government? Is it a responsible job of the Opposition? It is very dangerous," she told media outside Parliament. "Congress has become a toy in the dirty game of multinational corporates. Their language is not in the interest of the country," she alleged. Sitharaman said that she was "very shocked" to see this attitude. Her remarks came soon after Gandhi, earlier in the day, addressed a press conference and accused Prime Minister of being directly involved in the Rafale fighter jet deal with France by running parallel negotiation in 2015.

Quoting the then Defence Minister's reply to that file noting, Sitharaman said, "Your note is right, but there is no need to get excited so much. Everything is alright. This was Parrikar's reply, which is there in the files of the Defence Secretary." "I am sorry there was selective noting and building an issue falsely on it," she said, adding that the response of the then Defence Minister was very clear. (IANS)

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