'In my experience of politics, I have seen political grips and political chokes are mostly hidden. The average person cannot see them,' Rahul Gandhi said.
Gandhi has been attacking the BJP government for allegedly inking the deal at a much higher price than the one the previous United Progressive Alliance regime had negotiated to benefit 'one businessman'.
The BJP said the email purportedly by an Airbus executive referred to a helicopter deal and not Rafale.
Asked about his fleet of luxury cars and other references to his lavish lifestyle as the counsel for the banks cross-examined him, the Reliance Communications chief dismissed them as "speculative" media stories.
The filmmaker admits he might not get to be as whimsical as before.
He said all his phones have been tapped and his friends informed by intelligence people that this is being done.
The prime minister must clear his stand on the Rafale deal after Hollande's remarks, he said.
The court said the remarks made by Gandhi were far from true and he should have refrained from those and could have been careful.
'No sovereign guarantee, no bank guarantee, no escrow account, yet a huge amount was paid as advance'
She said then defence minister Manohar Parrikar had replied to the letter asking the official to remain 'calm' as everything was 'alright'.
Congress chief urged Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to answer the questions raised by the Congress on the multi-million dollar fighter jet deal.
'Rafale is an open and shut case and there is only one man who has done corruption'
The only reason for the new deal is to give Rs 30,000 crore to industrialist Anil Ambani, the Congress chief alleged.
Reaching out to present and former employees of the defence PSU at an interaction with them, Gandhi said, work done by HAL for the country was tremendous and the country owed debt to it for "protecting us" and creating a scientific vision.
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