Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a direct debate on the Rafale deal, claiming he was too “scared” to come to Parliament and face questions. “The defence minister is lying, not answering specific questions. The chowkidar (watchman, a tag Modi gave himself during the 2014 campaign) can’t come to Parliament as he is scared to face questions,” Rahul told reporters. I challenge him to have a debate with me for 15 minutes on Rafale. The Congress alleges that HAL has fallen on bad days under Modi, and that the Prime Minister unilaterally took the Rafale offset contract away from it in favour of Anil Ambani’s Reliance.

Source: The Telegraph January 07, 2019 21:45 UTC