After destroying HAL, Congress is trying to reap political benefits from its condition

HAL Congress Christian Michel

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In his quest, and subsequent failure, to find an issue to ‘corner’ the BJP Government, Rahul Gandhi turned to lies, deceit, half-truth, blatant propaganda and fake news on make-believe ‘Rafale scam’. Rahul Gandhi’s, and his cronies in media, allegations of favoritism and partiality to a private company while disregarding the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in the Rafale deal, have been debunked thoroughly by Indian Air Force and the Honorable Supreme Court of India. Despite his failures, Rahul Gandhi kept trying to politicize the HAL even meeting the employees of the PSU and trying to turn them against the government’s decision. On HAL, Rahul Gandhi often wonders, loudly, why the PSU was not chosen for the offset deal with Dassault, completely oblivious of the capabilities and strength of the PSU which has been undermined by the socialist policies and misgovernance of his party’s rule.

Under the offset rules, Dassault was free to choose its partner which has been clarified time and again by both the Government of India and the French company. They didn’t choose HAL as their offset partner because of the poor health of the PSU which is certainly a result of the misgovernance of the Congress party.

In contradiction to Congress’s new found love for HAL, on Mar 03, 2012, their own MoS defence Mr Pallam Raju accepted on record that HAL was not able to meet the expectations of Indian Air Force.

Furthermore, in October 2013, UPA Government told the Delhi High Court that HAL’s poor workmanship was to blame for MiG-21 accidents. They even blamed HAL for a spinal injury to an air force pilot.

The shocking aspect is that all through this, the Congress party knew all about the ailing condition of HAL.

While this shows the ‘illustrious’ history of HAL, the current projects undertaken by the PSU are not exactly going well either:

On top of all this, The Congress government gave contracts worth only Rs 10000 crore as opposed to the NDA government that has been giving contracts of Rs 22000 crore a year.

So, clearly, the Congress led UPA government under Sonia and Rahul Gandhi did nothing to improve the prospects of HAL. It would not be unreasonable to say that they almost destroyed it. And now they have the audacity to question why the offset contract for the Rafale deal went to a private partner.

HAL is among the monuments of the Nehruvian economy and a testament to its abject failure. Will Mr Rahul Gandhi ask Sonia Ji, Dr Manmohan Singh and Mr AK Antony what did they do to improve HAL’s condition during Congress rule?

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