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Congress moves privilege motion against Sitharaman

  •   Mon, Jan 07 2019 08:40:01 PM

New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS): The Congress on Monday moved a privilege motion against Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for allegedly "misleading" the Lok Sabha during the debate on Rafale fighter jets deal.

Congress' K.C. Venugopal submitted a breach of privilege notice against Sitharaman which the Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said is "under my consideration".

Venugopal accused Sitharaman of misleading the House on two counts: "She told the House that Rs 1 lakh crore worth orders were given to the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) which is false."

"During her reply on Rafale deal on Friday, she also misled the House by claiming that the Supreme Court has approved the government's stand on pricing of jets and purposefully avoided to inform the House that the court in fact has said that it will not go into pricing details of the jets," said Venugopal.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi has accused Sitharaman of lying about the orders to the HAL and demanded her to prove her claims in the Parliament or resign.

During the day, Sitharaman, however, attacked Gandhi for raising "incorrect and misleading" doubts regarding her statement in Parliament and clarified that she has received confirmation from HAL that during 2014 to 2018, contracts amounting to Rs 26,570.80 crore had been signed with the public sector company and orders worth approximately Rs 73,000 crore are in the pipeline.
  

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  • Dinesh, UDUPI

    Tue, Jan 08 2019

    Is she having the qualities or respect to the name that she is bearing (namakarn) . nirmala+sita+raman??

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  • RMS, Mulki

    Tue, Jan 08 2019

    In the current scenario, India has already signed a contract for the purchase of the aircraft, while no contract was signed by the UPA government. The ₹1,600 crore is the price of a fully weaponised aircraft, and it is already known that the cost of a bare aircraft is less than 50% of the total cost of weaponised aircraft. Speaking to media after the press conference of Rahul Gandhi, Arun Jaitley informed that there were two prices in the UPA deal, one for bare aircraft and the other for weaponised aircraft. It is also important to note that India is buying entire 36 planes from France, while in the earlier deal, 18 planes were to be bought from France and the rest 108 were to be made by HAL in India. The costs for both categories are different, hence the prices of both the deals cannot be compared directly. Only the price of 18 aircraft in the previous deal can be compared with the current deal for 36 aircraft. Both the Indian government and Dassault has informed that the current price is 9% cheaper compared to the earlier price.

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  • Fayaz, Mangalore /Dubai

    Tue, Jan 08 2019

    Bjp robber feku team even lost the charm of there have
    Look how akward they look even god hsve taken away there charm

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  • J N Lobo, Mumbai

    Mon, Jan 07 2019

    "Rs 73,000 crore are in the pipeline." Nobody is convinced. Public wants to know which pipe line or whose pipe line ?
    There is a limit for faking by these 'Fakus'

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  • mahesh, mangalore

    Mon, Jan 07 2019

    Good that they moved.
    Now everything will come out.
    Is Pappu ready to face the truth?

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  • Sms, Kundapura

    Mon, Jan 07 2019

    When you are right, why afraid?. Here we can make out something fishy, sweats on each & every persons forehead. Shivering talks?

    Ambani ne baja di BJP walonki band.

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  • Swamy, Mangalore

    Mon, Jan 07 2019

    Now it is Parrikar's turn to face Q&A in LS. BJP is claiming Parrikarvis fit to function as CM now let him function as Sitharaman.

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