BJP alleged the Congress president was a “serial liar” and “manufacturer of fake news” and his repeated lies cannot substitute the truth of the deal.
Citing comments of Rafale’s French manufacturer Dassault Aviation’s CEO Eric Trappier to reject Gandhi’s allegations, Union minister Piyush Goyal said the French government and Dassult have “exposed” Gandhi’s “fake news” and it was high time for him to stop lying.
Asserting that the people of India trusted Narendra Modi, Goyal also rejected the suggestion that the Congress has used the issue of alleged corruption in the Rafale deal to create a perception against the prime minister.
Goyal said an “issue-less” party and its leadership bereft of truth are no substitute to Modi and his good governance.
The union minister was fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party to reject Congress’s charges on the Rafale deal, a day after the Dassault CEO said his firm’s joint venture with Anil Ambani’s Reliance Group represented only around 10 per cent of the offset investments under the Rafale jet deal and it was in partnership talks with 100 other companies.
Gandhi has been accusing the prime minister of forcing Dassault to select Reliance as an offset partner to help the Indian firm “pocket” Rs 30000 crore — the entire estimated offset amount.
Targeting the Congress leader, Goyal said people have been of late seeing activities of a “serial liar”, with an “issue-less” party thinking that it can repeat lie after lie to make it sound like truth.
The minister said it has become clear now that Gandhi has been beating a dead horse and manufacturing fake news.
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