Rafale
deal a non-issue?
Union Minister Piyush Goyal at a press
conference in Mumbai said that the controversies surrounding the Rafale deal is a non-issue for
the Indian voter who is likely to retain full faith in Prime Minister Narendra
Modi’s leadership in the upcoming Lok Sabha election. He said in the wake of
the fresh revelations on “parallel negotiations”
by the PMO in the €7.87 billion deal.
The Opposition allege
that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had
consistently undermined the Air Force and Defence Ministry to benefit his
“cronies” in the Rafale deal.
It’s interesting to see how the vote bank of
the opposition parties have been conditioned. They would love all the details
of the aircraft and any major defence deal to be out in the public domain for
all to see, scrutanize and take stock of. These very people are the ones who refused
to believe the Indian army when the surgical strikes happened, were okay with
the culture of brokers/middlemen who made their millions in defence deals since
independence. India will have no hope as long as these leftist-socialist minded
intellectuals keep shouting hoarse about everything the government does, and
distracts the government from the real day to day issues just to ensure that
their leaders are back in power at any cost. For those attack and scoot rats, they
come out with concrete evidence that there has been a wrong comitteed in the
Rafale deal. Otherwise they should simply desist from causing any damage to our
country's image and progress.
It may well be true that a substantial number
of voters could not care a toss for the truth of the Rafale controversy simply
because they are more concerned with meeting their own costs of living. What is
also true is that a significant number of voters do not have great expectations
from any political party. How this translates at the Lok Sabha polls remains to
be seen.
Indians don't care if their leaders loot the
nation. They are more worried about a Muslim doing cow slaughter. Just as
Pakistanis don't care who runs the country as long as no-nonbeliever commits
blasphemy. The Indians are not bothered if the government loots the nation as
long as the cows are protected.
NDA government’s decision regarding acquisition
of Rafale aircrafts has become controversial but still the government has ruled
out a JPC probe in the matter. Citizen-voters wish to know the truth about
price of aircrafts and other details about Rafale deal. It is therefore
necessary that NDA should tell them that. In context of allegations made by
Congress President Rahul Gandhi about the Rafale deal, citizen-voters feel that
Rahul Gandhi wishes to use the said allegations to seize power but he is not at
all serious about ending payment of commission in all defence equipment deals,
which leads to corruption. Hence, citizen-voters wish that Congress President
Rahul Gandhi should, assuming UPA government comes to power, tell them whether
UPA govt. would reveal all facts about Rafale deal. Suppose UPA govt. comes to
power after Lok Sabha election would Rafale deal be renegotiated or cancelled? People
would like to hear this from you Rahul Gandhi.
One thing is true. The Minister is under the
false delusion that all the people of India are myopic and his reckoning of the
Rafale row as a non issue is purely wishful thinking and living in a fool’s
paradise. How can Rafale Deal be a non issue to the people, when their tax paid
money is doled out for acquiring the jets at more than double the cost as also
giving the offset contract to inexperienced and financially crippled group coy
of ADAG, when people are suffering from unemployment, inflation and other economic
factors?
We may not yet have finally made up our minds
on who to vote for. You may be a good man but make no mistake we are silently
listening and watching you and other political parties too.
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