The Congress here on Tuesday alleged the Narendra Modi-led Government inflicted losses to a State-run company by benefitting a private company with the Rafale deal.
The party demanded a probe by the Joint Parliamentary Committee into the deal.
While talking to media persons here on Tuesday, Congress Rajya Sabha member Kumari Selja told media persons that the NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi signed the Rafale deal to benefit a private company to the tune of Rs 30,000 crore.
While the Congress has been alleging that the Rafale deal was a scam, the allegations have been refuted by the government.
She further said the UPA government, in December 12, 2012, agreed to buy a fighter aircraft from Dassault Aviation for Rs 526.10 crore and going by this deal the price of 36 aircraft was Rs 18,940 crore. “However, the Modi government junked the agreement, and on April 10, 2015 went for buying 36 aircraft for 7.5 billion euros, which means Rs 60,145 crore. At this rate, cost of each aircraft jumped to Rs 1,670.70 crore," she added.
This way, Modi caused a loss of Rs 41,205 crore to the state coffers, she alleged. "Besides, the government inflicted a loss to a state-run company and profited a private company with Rs 30,000 crore," she said.
The Congress leader said the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics ltd (HAl) had inked an offset contract with inked Dassault Aviation in the shape of a work share agreement on March 13, 2014, but it was "snatched away from the HAl and given to private company Reliance Defence, which does not have any work experience, for Rs 30,000 crore.”
Selja further claimed that the Modi government gave the Reliance firm Rs 1,00,000 crore life-cycle cost contract related to Rafale.