It’s not the UPA but the BJP led NDA govt that saved money in Rafale deal says govt. document in possesion with Defence analyst Times Now

While the controvertial deal of Rafale Jet fighters have been caught in lot of mud slinging by the Congress party and its president Rahul Gandhi and his entire team of vociferous and eloquent spokespersons, not let it die down at any cost, with the government and the ruling BJP doing its best to defend itself and tell the countrymen that its a transparent government to government deal with no middlemen involved as were in earlier deals like the one being the controvertial Bofors kick back scandal which however finally acquitted the late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, but after his despicable assasination.

Even the former union ministers in the BJP government viz senior journalist n columnist Arun Shourie, Yashwant Sinha, today the arch rivals of PM Modi including the crusador against corruption Prashant Bhushan and the Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejrival have been holding press conferences exposing the BJP led NDA government n casting aspersions on the prime minister of wrong doings in terms of increasing the price of the Rafale aircraft three times to what has been fixed by the UPA government at Rs. 737 crores per fighter aircraft which according to them are being purchased at the cost of Rs. 1600 per jet.

What is interesting about this entire deal is that in addition to the three time rise in the cost of the Rafale Jet Fighter thus allegedly causing several thousand crores as loss to the public exchequer, the NDA government has replaced the public sector undertaking Hindustan Aeronautics limited with the inexperienced Reliance Defence of Anil Ambani as charged by the Congress chief Rahul Gandhi n others as above.

Not a day passes when the Congress party and its chief Rahul Gandhi does not forget to mention about the controvertial Rafale deal putting the present government in the dock thus bringing back into retrospection the repeated salvos of the then anti Congress opposition and the media hype against Rajiv Gandhi n his government during eighties n nineties on the Bofors kickback scandal while he was the prime minister.

But one of the most interesting aspects of the whole episode is that in one of the video released by Times Now on 2nd October which is being further shared in the social media these days is an interesting statement/ speech of a senior journalist n defense analyst in Times Now, Maroof Raza, the leading English channel once in controversy for the alleged ruling party tilt when Arnab Goswami held his hectic shows not allowing the debators to speak n literally scolding them on being anti BJP or government .

According to Maroof Raza who sounds more like meticulously standing in the defense of the controvertial Rafale deal on technical grounds, this deal is strictly between government to government as no middlemen is involved in it. The Rafale jet fighters according to him are the most advance combat aircraft third times more advanced than Sukhoi which can function most efficientlyand with tremendus amuntof dexteriy on mountain air bases, deserts and even terrains in extremely challenging n odd situations who are the real asset for the country.

He emphatically reveals that though the deal was signed by the UPA government in 2007 but as said by the Congress about its prices and numbers nothing had been finalised during that tenure not even the costs.

While allegedly standing in support of the deal Maroof Raza unambiguously says that as per the important documents he is in possesion of, from the ministry of Defence the present BJP led NDA government has actually done a favor by clinching the deal as it saved Rs. 67 crores and 400 crores respectively in the price of single aircraft as well as the Rafale jet fighters to be procured after beng fitted with hi tech Weapons, Missiles, the Scalp, the Meteorn the Headmount etc.

Maroof Raza says that the defence document in his possession mentions that the Rafale price fixed or being talked for per jet fighter minus important combat accessories during the UPA tenure was Rs.737 crores per aircraft whereas it was Rs. 670 crores during the BJP tenure thus saving Rs.67 crores in per aircraft.

Similarly, during the UPA tenure the prices for per aircraft fitted with all the necessary hi tech accessories like weapons, missiles, the scalp, the meteor, headmount etc was fixed at Rs. 2000 crores wheras the BJP government says the price fixed or quoted by it was Rs. 1600, thus saving Rs. 400 crores in each aircraft just contrary to the charges of the non BJP opposition .

This startling disclosures by senior journalist and defence analyst of prestigios news channel Times Now Maroof Raza sound to interesting who did’nt speak a single word about the alleged offset contract accorded to the Reliance defense headed by Anil Ambani thus replacing the HAL having tremendous experience of several decades in defence prodction and assembly and which is the bone of contention of the entire deal as being mentioned by Rahul Gandhi, Arun Shourie and AshwantSinha. Anybody interested to wach and hear the vedio can go in the time line of the Times Now or in the facebook.