Omar Abdullah put out a document on Twitter that said "parallel negotiation" by the PMO had weakened the deal. Telegraph file photoNational Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Friday said he would like to see how those aligned with the BJP would explain reports that the defence ministry had protested over the mechanism being adopted by the PMO for the Rafale deal. He tagged a document, purportedly of the defence ministry, which was published as part of a news report by The Hindu. According to the article, the ministry had raised strong objections to "parallel negotiations" conducted by the PMO with the French side. The National Conference was an ally of NDA when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the Prime Minister but shifted to UPA-II in 2009.

Source: The Telegraph February 08, 2019 08:26 UTC