Janjivan Bureau / New Delhi : Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday cited an email from an Airbus executive to attribute leakages of the Rafale deal MoU to industrialist Anil Ambani and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of treason.
Flashing the email, now in public domain, Gandhi said PM Modi “is the middlemen of Ambani” and “needs to be charged under the Official Secrets Act”.
“There is an email from the Airbus executive who says Anil Ambani visited the French defence officials and told them that an MoU was ready with an intention to sign it. What could be clearer? This is treason. The PM alone knew of the Rafale MoU and shared this defence secret with Ambani. The Defence Minister didn’t know, the Foreign Secretary didn’t know, HAL didn’t know. The PM was under oath to protect defence secrets and he leaked those secrets. Criminal action must follow,” Gandhi said in a press conference at the party headquarters.
He also rejected the yet-to-be-tabled CAG report on Rafale, saying “I would call the report the Chowkidar Audit General Report” as it had been written by the PM for the PM.
Gandhi repeated old charges of alleged corruption in the deal saying, “Earlier, there was the axis of corruption and procedural inconsistencies in the Rafale deal and now there’s a third one, one of treason which is the most serious.”
