April 10, 2015.
STATEMENT OF DR. SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY,
PRESIDENT OF VIRAT HINDUSTAN SANGAM
MADE IN NEW DELHI.
I urge the Prime Minister not to finalize the Rafael Aircraft Deal with France. The deal originally was negotiated by the previous UPA Government.
There are two major issues with the Rafael Aircraft Deal which if clinched would embarrass the BJP Government at the Centre. The first is that Rafael is a less fuel efficient aircraft and lacking in essential performance characteristics because of which no country in the world has agreed to buy these aircrafts. Some countries have cancelled contracts after signing an MoU with Dasault, the manufacturers, after carrying out a trial of the plane, for example, Switzerland.
The Rafael performance of Libya and Egypt turned out to be worst of all the aircrafts which were deployed by the allies liberating the countries from tyranny.
The second issue is that the present Rafael Deal negotiated was de-facto a privately negotiated deal between the wife of the former French President Ms Carla Bruni, who is an Italian with two Italian sisters of Ms Sonia Gandhi, namely Ms Anushka and Ms Nadia, and is a corrupt deal to the core.
Dasault will go bankrupt if no country buys the Rafael and therefore if we want to oblige the French it is better to buy Dasault company itself rather than their planes, as it will be more beneficial and cost effective.
If the Prime Minister for some other compulsion anyway decides to go ahead with the deal, then I will have no option but to approach the Court in a PIL to get it set aside
( SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY )