Just 6 hours left: Rahul Gandhi reminds Arun Jaitley about the Rafale JPC deadline

Second day in a row, Congress president Rahul Gandhi today again targeted Arun Jaitley and reminded the finance minister that less than six hours are left for his deadline on Rafale deal to get over.

"Young India is waiting (for Joint Parliamentary Committee on Rafale deal) . I hope you're busy convincing Narendra Modi Ji and Anil Ambani Ji about why they should listen to you and approve this," Rahul Gandhi said on micro blogging site Twitter today.



Characterizing the deal as #Great Rafale Robbery, Congress president had yesterday proposed formation of a joint parliamentary committee to look into the alleged misappropriation in the Rafale deal. Gandhi had asked Arun Jaitley to revert back in the next 24 hours, with a decision to form such a committee, which will look into the nuances of the deal and sort it all out.


Rahul Gandhi was responding to Arun Jaitley's 15 questions to Congress party, in which he had termed Congress' charges as “complete falsehood”.

In a Facebook blog, Jaitley had refuted Congress' allegation that the government had benefited Anil Ambani's Reliance group, saying "Government of India has no contract whatsoever with any private industry in relation with the Rafale aircraft supplies".

BJP president Amit Shah had also responded by saying" Why wait 24 hours when you already have your JPC-Jhoothi Party Congress."