A high-level Congress delegation on Thursday petitioned the CAG for the second time in 15 days and sought forensic audit of the Rafale deal between India and France.
In a memorandum to CAG Rajiv Mehrishi, the Congress appealed to the central auditor to undertake “his constitutional duty” and expose the facts of Rafale to enable parliament to take a view on the issue.
The Congress is simultaneously demanding a joint parliamentary committee probe into the matter.
Repeating the allegations it has been making in the Rafale matter, the Congress said the 36 jet deal compromised national security by cutting down on the jet order and also removing the transfer of technology clause for HAL in the original negotiations which the Congress-led UPA had started.
“It is our clear understanding that all the contours of this conspiracy, corruption, endangering of national security and crony capitalism can be uncovered only thorough a probe by the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC). It is expected that the CAG which has a constitutional mandate and authority to scrutinise every document, in this case including original tender, understanding reached between Dassault and HAL and the arbitrary decision of the Prime Minister without any mandate from the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) will undertake a forensic audit,” the memorandum said.
The delegation, comprising senior Congress leaders Ahmed Patel, Anand Sharma, Jairam Ramesh, RPN Singh and Randeep Surjewala, urged the CAG to “bring all facts on record to enable Parliament to fix accountability for the Rafale scam”.
The Congress had earlier met the CAG on this issue on September 19.
