Buoyed by the recent revelations on the Rafale fighter plane deal, the Congress has launched a major offensive on the Narendra Modi Government. Addressing the media persons at the headquarters of the Uttarakhand Congress here on Saturday, the spokesperson of All India Congress Committee (AICC) Ragini Nayak alleged that the dubious nexus between Modi government, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) to bury the Rafale corruption has got exposed.
“The BJP Govt sacrificed national security, jeopardised the interests of the Indian Air Force and caused loss worth thousands of crores to our exchequer. Each revelation in the murky Rafale affair for the last five years, every single allegation and each piece of the puzzle leads right up to the highest echelons of power in the Modi Government,’’ she said.
Terming the deal as the biggest scam in the history of the country Nayak shared what she claimed is the chronology of the scam. She said that on October 4, 2018, two former Union Ministers of BJP and a senior lawyer submitted a complaint to the CBI director citing massive corruption in the Rafale deal. On October 11, 2018 the Government of Mauritius supplied the documents to the CBI through its Attorney General regarding the deal. Nayak said that on October 23, 2018 a high drama was enacted in which the office of CBI was raided by Delhi police and the then CBI director Alok Verma who had the documents of the scam was removed and M Nageshwar Rao was made new director.