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Old Habits Die Hard: Congress Mouthpiece Gets Called Out By French Ambassador For Fake News On Rafale
French Ambassador In India Alexandre Ziegler (@FranceinIndia/Twitter)
Despite the Supreme Court’s clean chit to the Union government on Rafale deal, the Congress party and its president Rahul Gandhi have repeatedly questioned the Modi government over the agreement. A similar effort by Congress mouthpiece, National Herald (NH), over the pricing of Rafale, however, has been rebutted by the French Ambassador to India on Tuesday (16 January).
The Defense News report, however, mentions the price of the ‘deal’ at €2 billion and not €2.3 billion as claimed in NH report.
However, a little while after they put the news on Twitter, French Ambassador Alexandre Ziegler responded that the French government has not announced any new aircraft acquisition order and that the amount referred in the report will only finance development of F4 standard for the Rafale aircraft.
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