‘Chowkidar Auditor General report’ versus ‘lies of mahajhootbandhan’

New Delhi: The Congress has said that even the “eyewash Chowkidar Auditor General Report” has “nailed the lies” of the prime minister, defence minister and finance minister in Parliament that the Modi government’s Rafale deal was “9-20% cheaper” than the UPA regime’s.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi said: “As far as I am concerned, a CAG report that does not mention the dissent the negotiating team made on price and timing is not worth the paper (it is written on)… The CAG report is a cover-up. It ignores the cost of the missing bank guarantee and glosses over the suspect cost for India-specific enhancements.”

Countering, Union minister Arun Jaitley said: “The lies of the Congress and opposition parties stand exposed by the CAG report, which reaffirms the dictum that truth shall prevail.”


Jaitley said: “It cannot be that the Supreme Court is wrong, the CAG is wrong and only the dynast is right.

Satyameva Jayate — the truth shall prevail…” In a tweet, he said: “The lies of ‘Mahajhootbandhan’ stand exposed by the CAG Report. How does democracy punish those who consistently lied to the nation?”

On his part, Gandhi said: “The CAG admits that the condition of bank guarantee, sovereign guarantee was waived by the prime minister in the Cabinet Committee on Security in September, 2015... The CAG admits that the French government even refused to agree to an escrow account.”