Targeting Congress, Narendra Modi says ‘no Quattrocchi mama or Michel uncle in NDA’s Rafale deal’

Team Suno Neta Monday 17th of December 2018 11:01 AM

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Narendra Modi.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his first public remark since the Supreme Court rejected judicial intervention in the Rafale deal, on Sunday, targeted the Congress and said the party is “lying” and is “frustrated” as there was no “Quattrocchi mama” or “Christian Michel uncle” in the NDA government’s defence deals.

While addressing a public meeting during the inauguration of a in former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s Lok Sabha constituency of Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh, just days after the BJP lost power to the Congress in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, Modi questioned the Congress on why it did not strengthen the Air Force despite demands by the military after the Kargil war.

Attacking the Congress on defence deals, Modi, in Hindi, said: “Vayu sena ko majboot nahi hone diya. Kiske dabav mein? Raksha saudon ke mamle mein congress ka itihas Bofors ghotale wale Quattrochi mama ka raha hai. (The Congress did not strengthen the Air Force? Under whose pressure? In defence deals, the Congress’s history includes people like [Ottavio] Quattrocchi in the Bofors scam).”