‘Congress opposition to Rafale deal to promote competitor’- Ravi Shankar Prasad

New Delhi: Describing the charge of Congress President Rahul Gandhi and his party over the Rafale deal as “completely false”, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday said that it was based on complete “commercial interests” and to “promote” the competitor. Addressing the media in Parliament complex, he said: “Today a media house has come out with a document which says a strategy paper seized during the raids at Italian middleman Guido Haschke’s residence and offices has revealed that Christian Michel and Haschke worked on a plan to place Rafale’s prime competitor in the win zone.”

He said that one of the middlemen Michel, a British national who is under detention, and others were also pushing the case for Eurofighter, which was in competition with Rafale. He claimed that the documents which have been shown were “explosive” in nature. (IANS)

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