And yet, in the end, her “performance” — for all the drama and the details she offered — was akin to watching Hamlet, without the prince. That there is no “middleman” in the Rafale deal, as was the case in Bofors, gives more ballast to the government’s assertion that it is a clean deal. Since the new Rafale deal is worth Rs 59,000 crores, the chosen offsets partner in India stand to gain thousands of crores. It notes: “While Dassault may have had the option of choosing the offset partner, the offset partner was required to be approved by the Raksha Mantri. The judgement relies on the government’s averment that details of Indian Offset Partner were not made available to it by Dassault.

Source: The Telegraph January 07, 2019 03:33 UTC