The writer is national spokesperson, BJP and advocate on record, the Supreme Court of India.
The Rafale bogey
The Congress must answer why it didn’t ink the deal while in power.
There is nothing more vital and sacrosanct to a nation than its security and sovereignty. In the last few months, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has been hopelessly trying to raise a false bogey about the Rafale deal signed by the Narendra Modigovernment. The Congress government could not ink the said deal even after a decade of its rule, thus seriously jeopardising national security.
It is also a well known fact that 42 squadrons of the Indian Air Force came down to 33 during the UPA regime. Given this urgency, under the dynamic leadership of Narendra Modi, and in the interest of national security, a government to government agreement was signed in 17 months flat — something that couldn’t be finalised in the 10 years of the Congress government.
Most importantly, the Rafale deal has offered the people of India an important opportunity. It has permitted our citizens a stark and objective comparison between the fabric of leadership of Rahul Gandhi and that of Modi. At one end, we have a frustrated Opposition that, in the absence of even an iota of governmental corruption over four years, is willing to rake up non-issues even to the extent of compromising the security of the country. On the other, people see a tall leader committing himself to the nation, overcoming red-tape and tirelessly accelerating initiatives that empower the country and its people.
The Supreme Court, while deciding the writ petition filed before it, has finally adjudicated on the three main allegations made by the political class and the petitioners regarding the Rafale deal.
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