{"id":266762,"date":"2018-02-09T17:28:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T11:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/?p=266762"},"modified":"2018-02-09T18:34:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:04:48","slug":"rafale-deal-explainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/2018\/02\/rafale-deal-explainer\/","title":{"rendered":"In Depth: All You Need To Know About The Rafale Deal And The Controversy Around It"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Indian National Congress president Rahul Gandhi had issued a notice<\/a> to speak at the Lok Sabha today on the issue of the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets from a French company by the Narendra Modi government.<\/p> This comes a few days after defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s told<\/a> the Parliament that the details of the deal regarding the Rafale fighter jets can’t be made public since an inter-governmental agreement makes it ‘classified information’.<\/p> Major allegations of corruption and crony-capitalism have been levelled on the Narendra Modi government for the deal related to the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets.<\/p> The roots of the Rafale deal go back to 2007<\/a> when the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was in power. In August 2007, for the Indian Air Force, a tender had been floated by the UPA government for the purchase of 126 twin-engine ‘Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircrafts’. Dassault Aviation’s Rafale had won the contract.<\/p> In late 2012, Dassault agreed to sell Rafale at a base price of approximately ₹54,000 crore.<\/p> The things that were finalised in the deal were:<\/p> 1. 18 out of the 126 planes would be imported in a ‘fly away condition’. The agreement between Dassault and HAL was signed on March 13, 2014.<\/p> In April 2015, Narendra Modi made a state visit to France as the Prime Minister. Over there, an announcement was made by him that 36 Rafale aircrafts in ‘fly-away condition’ were going to be bought. Interestingly, Reliance Defence Limited (RDL) owner Anil Ambani accompanied the Prime Minister during the state visit.<\/p>Now, What Is The Controversy All About?<\/h3>
2. 108 of them would be manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), India’s public sector aerospace and defence unit. However, Dassault was required to transfer its technology as per the agreement. The company also had to invest half of the transaction money in India.<\/p>Decisions Made By The Narendra-Modi Led Government<\/h3>