Sule says Pawar has been misunderstood on Rafale
Friday - September 28, 2018 5:28 pm ,
Category : INDIA
Sule says Pawar has been misunderstood on Rafale
New Delhi Sep 28 (IANS) With a senior leader quitting the party NCP leader Supriya Sule on Friday said party chief Sharad Pawar s comment on the Prime Minister and the Rafale deal have been misunderstood as he has actually demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into it.
In a series of tweets she said it was "disappointing" that the issues raised by Pawar in an interview to a Marathi channel regarding the Rafale fighter jet deal were ignored.
Sule s comments came soon after party General Secretary Tariq Anwar quit the party and the Lok Sabha expressing his disagreement with Pawar who gave a clean chit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Rafale deal.
"It s disappointing that people have not heard Pawar ... where he has clearly raised three questions: 1) what is the justification for a 300 percent price increase from Rs 526 crore to Rs 1 670 crore which potentially could be a significant loss to the exchequer? " said Sule a Lok Sabha member and a daughter of Pawar.
"2) If such doubts have been raised and the government is so confident then why are they shying from setting up a JPC? 3) When the BJP raised both price and specification issues during the Bofors allegations then why are they hiding behind artificial justification of secrecy of agreements vis-a-vis both commercial price and offset agreements."
Reacting to Pawar s interview in which he had said he did not think people doubt Modi s intentions on a personal level Anwar told media: "The Prime Minister is fully involved in the Rafale deal.
"I have resigned from the NCP as well as the membership of Lok Sabha because I totally disagree with Sharad Pawar s statement in support of Modi on Rafale deal " said the 67-year-old who was expelled from the Congress in 1999 along with Pawar and P.A. Sangma after they questioned the foreign origins of Sonia Gandhi.
--IANS spk/vsc/mr
In a series of tweets she said it was "disappointing" that the issues raised by Pawar in an interview to a Marathi channel regarding the Rafale fighter jet deal were ignored.
Sule s comments came soon after party General Secretary Tariq Anwar quit the party and the Lok Sabha expressing his disagreement with Pawar who gave a clean chit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Rafale deal.
"It s disappointing that people have not heard Pawar ... where he has clearly raised three questions: 1) what is the justification for a 300 percent price increase from Rs 526 crore to Rs 1 670 crore which potentially could be a significant loss to the exchequer? " said Sule a Lok Sabha member and a daughter of Pawar.
"2) If such doubts have been raised and the government is so confident then why are they shying from setting up a JPC? 3) When the BJP raised both price and specification issues during the Bofors allegations then why are they hiding behind artificial justification of secrecy of agreements vis-a-vis both commercial price and offset agreements."
Reacting to Pawar s interview in which he had said he did not think people doubt Modi s intentions on a personal level Anwar told media: "The Prime Minister is fully involved in the Rafale deal.
"I have resigned from the NCP as well as the membership of Lok Sabha because I totally disagree with Sharad Pawar s statement in support of Modi on Rafale deal " said the 67-year-old who was expelled from the Congress in 1999 along with Pawar and P.A. Sangma after they questioned the foreign origins of Sonia Gandhi.
--IANS spk/vsc/mr
