Senior minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday took on oppositions and said another attempt is being made to malign the Government by spreading falsehood and paddling fabricated facts regarding the 2016 Inter-Governmental Agreement for the procurement of Rafale fighter aircraft.
“It is even more reprehensible that this fresh attempt to tarnish the image of the Government should come less than two weeks after the miserable failure of a similar effort in the Parliament,” said Jaitley on his Facebook page titled, “The Rafale Falsehood Repeated”.
His blog came after two former BJP ministers —— Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie along with senior Supreme Court advocate Prashant Bhushan on Wednesday evening raked up the issue and demanded for forensic audit by CAG.
Terming the allegation as baseless and reprocessed lies, the minister in his blog said, “There is not a grain of truth in the wild allegations repeated today nor anything substantiating in the purported facts and voluminous documents marshalled to corroborate the baseless accusations.”
The unsubstantiated allegations against the Government constitute nothing but reprocessed lies by forces increasingly desperate to prove their relevance, he added.
The Government had already responded effectively to each and every distortion and misinformation on the issue.
He also said, “those raising alarm about the alleged danger to national security ought to realise their responsibility and refrain from politicising for narrow individual ends those very matters pertaining to defence of the nation that were consistently ignored by them and by those with whom they sympathise.”
Senior minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday took on oppositions and said another attempt is being made to malign the Government by spreading falsehood and paddling fabricated facts regarding the 2016 Inter-Governmental Agreement for the procurement of Rafale fighter aircraft.
“It is even more reprehensible that this fresh attempt to tarnish the image of the Government should come less than two weeks after the miserable failure of a similar effort in the Parliament,” said Jaitley on his Facebook page titled, “The Rafale Falsehood Repeated”.
His blog came after two former BJP ministers —— Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie along with senior Supreme Court advocate Prashant Bhushan on Wednesday evening raked up the issue and demanded for forensic audit by CAG.
Terming the allegation as baseless and reprocessed lies, the minister in his blog said, “There is not a grain of truth in the wild allegations repeated today nor anything substantiating in the purported facts and voluminous documents marshalled to corroborate the baseless accusations.”
The unsubstantiated allegations against the Government constitute nothing but reprocessed lies by forces increasingly desperate to prove their relevance, he added.
The Government had already responded effectively to each and every distortion and misinformation on the issue.
He also said, “those raising alarm about the alleged danger to national security ought to realise their responsibility and refrain from politicising for narrow individual ends those very matters pertaining to defence of the nation that were consistently ignored by them and by those with whom they sympathise.”
