Agusta deal: Parrikar to reveal details on May 4
New Delhi | 01 May, 2016
In a bid to rattle the Congress, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Sunday said that he will place the “detailed chronology with documents” about the AgustaWestland chopper scam before Parliament on May 4.
"I will place the detailed chronology with documents giving facts about AgustaWestland chopper deal before Parliament on May 4,” Parrikar said.
The announcement comes in the wake of a combative Congress alleging witch-hunt by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre especially against its top leadership including party chief Sonia Gandhi.
The Congress has been challenging the Union government to bring forth proof of wrongdoing against Sonia Gandhi over alleged payoffs in the supply of 12 AgustaWestland helicopters to India after an Italian appeals court handed prison terms to former chiefs of Finmeccanica and AgustaWestland on corruption charges.
The tension between the two groups intensified when BJP parliamentarian in the Rajya Sabha Subramanian Swamy dragged Sonia Gandhi’s name into the controversy while addressing the upper house.
An agitated Congress on Saturday announced to hold a protest outside parliament on May 6 to expose the ‘deceit and deliberate lies' against opposition, amid escalating confrontation with the government.
Party chief Sonia Gandhi, vice president Rahul Gandhi and several other party workers would march from Jantar Mantar early morning to parliament.
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