With France’s nod, Modi Government is all set to subject the Congress party to an international humiliation

Congress is all set to humiliate itself at the international level this time with the Macron government in France agreeing to investigation in the Rafale deal controversy of the French court’s appointment of a judge to investigate the case.

Given the fact France government (the current Macron government as well as the Holland government under whom the deal was made) has repeatedly said that there is no corruption and even agreed to the investigation, all the parties are set to come out clean and Congress will face humiliation at an international scale.

Before the 2019 general election, Congress made Rafale deal controversy major campaign agenda and with the help of its lackeys in the media, tried to make it a Bofors-like scam in anticipation that the Modi government would also lose just like Rajiv Gandhi. However, a campaign centred around the Rafale deal turned out to be a disaster because the voters did not buy that there can be corruption under Modi’s watch and BJP came back to power with an even greater majority.

Now, the Congress party is trying to cash the controversy again and asked for a JPC inquiry after the French court opened the case. The opposition party demanded a JPC probe because “only a JPC can go into the depth of the matter by summoning the prime minister and other officials”.

“It is the competent authority to summon official documents which the Supreme Court will not be able to do. The Supreme Court in its verdict had said that it is not the competent authority to hear the Rafale case. The prime minister must tell the country when his government will allow a JPC probe in light of the French enquiry,” Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said.

Previously, due to the desperate attempts of Congress to generate buzz around the Rafale story, another scam of the UPA government was exposed, that too related to Rafale in which the party was trying to implicate the Modi government.

A report by TFI, a French online portal, revealed that crores of rupees were paid to a middleman named Sushen Mohan Gupta, and most of these transactions were done between 2004 to 2013. “According to an accounts spreadsheet belonging to Sushen Gupta, an entity called simply ‘D’, which is a code he regularly used to designate Dassault, paid €14.6 million to Interdev in Singapore over the period 2004-2013,” the report said.

Sushen Mohan Gupta was a very influential middleman during the UPA era. In 2019, he was arrested in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal case, another defence deal scam worth crores in during the UPA government.

Initially, Gupta was being paid directly by Thales, a French multinational company that designs and builds electrical systems, through shell companies. According to another account’s spreadsheet belonging to Gupta, which only covers the years between 2004 to 2008, Thales paid €2.4 million to another shell company. Later, when they came under the radar, thousands of crores of rupees were paid to Gupta through inflated bills for software consulting between 2008 to 2013.

Despite repeatedly burning its hand in Rafale’s story, Congress is done with it yet and it is now ready to face international humiliation in the same. Given the fact there is no scam in the deal as proved by various defence experts, Congress’s old scams come out every time closer scrutiny of past defence deals takes place.