PTI, JAMMU: A day after a Congress leader demanded scrapping of the Rafale fighter aircraft deal, the Jammu and Kashmir BJP today accused the Congress of “fabricating lies” in a “desperate” bid to corner the NDA government ahead of the Lok Sabha polls next year.
Terming the allegations over the deal “half-backed, false, misleading and confusing”, it alleged that Congress’ insistence on making the contents of the deal public was aimed at helping the intelligence agencies of China and Pakistan.
Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Partap Singh Bajwa had yesterday termed Rafale deal the “biggest scam in the country’s defence sector post-Independence” and demanded its cancellation.
State BJP spokesperson Brigadier Anil Gupta (retd) said, “In a desperate bid to corner the Narendra Modi government prior to the 2019 polls, the Congress is fabricating lies and scams in the hope that it may succeed in maligning the image of the BJP-led NDA government.”
He claimed the Congress which made a “record of scams” during UPA II, is “trying desperately” to paint the BJP with the same brush.
“Terming the Rafale deal a scam is an attempt of the Congress at mud-slinging, hoping that some mud would definitely stick and at least sow a seed of doubt in the mind of the gullible public before the ‘do or die’ elections for the party which is struggling for its survival,” Gupta said, adding the Congress would never succeed in its “nefarious design”.
