A day after Congress president Rahul Gandhi launched a virulent attack against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the controversial Rafale fighter jet deal, Union Minister Piyush Goyal held another press conference on Friday accusing the Congress chief of ” indulging in falsehoods” and “manufacturing fake” news.
Goyal called the Congress’s attacks an “issue-less” parry trying to hide the party’s own misdeeds through fake propaganda and said: “These lies cannot change the truth. It’s time that Congress president stops lying”.
“The truth is before the country. Flogging a dead horse will not get them anything…The Congress has no way to counter the good work done by the Narendra Modi government,” Goyal said.
He reiterated the BJP’s line that the deal “dated back to 2012”—a time when the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance was still in power.
“Because the French company could not pass any favours to the Gandhi family the deal could not go through/ Gandhi is now trying to divert attention from it,” Goyal said, asking him to come clean on the supposed links with arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari.
“There is no doubt in minds of the people of India about Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” he said.
