PAC Chief Kharge: Will summon Attorney General and CAG over lie to SC 

Reiterating his demand for Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe in to Rafale deal, head of the Public Account Committee (PAC) Mallikarjun Kharge said he will ask the PAC members to summon Attorney General KK Venugopal and CAG Rajiv Mehrishi. He sought to question them on when they had submitted the report before the panel on the Rafale-pricing. And if not, why this submission was made before the top court, asked Kharge during a media briefing on Saturday.

“The government lied in the Supreme Court that the CAG report was presented in the House and before the PAC and the PAC has probed it. The government said in SC that it (the CAG report) is in public domain. Where is it? Have you seen it?” Kharge said.

The 29-page judgment delivered by the apex court on Friday, December 14, states that the CAG report on Rafale was shared with the PAC, but Kharge, who heads the PAC, said he has not seen the report.

“When you feed wrong information to the Supreme Court and get a clean chit on that then it is not right. We respect the Supreme Court but it is not a probe agency, only the JPC (Joint Parliamentary Committee can investigate the Rafale deal. The government has not followed the proper procedure in the court,”  said the Congress leader.

Blaming Modi government for “misleading” the SC by presenting wrong facts on the CAG report, Kharge said government should apologies for telling a lie to the SC.