RJD leader Tejashwi challenges PM Modi to form JPC on Rafale deal

Bihar opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav on Friday December 14, dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to form a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe the purchase of 36 Rafale jet fighters in a ready-to-fly condition from France.

"If Modi is honest and his government is holy, why he is not forming the JPC to probe the purchase of the 36 Rafale jet fighter jets," Tejashwi Yadav told the media at Patna airport on his return from Mumbai.

The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader was reacting to a Supreme Court verdict on on the same day, that dismissed four petitions seeking a court-monitored probe on the issue holding that the decision making process was not in doubt and it cannot go into the question of pricing and choice of offset Indian partner by the French aircraft manufacturer Dassault.

The same demands were placed by Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday December 10 said that the Congress will press for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) inquiry into the Rafale deal demand of JPC on Rafaele was also raised by other Congress leader

He said the petitions were filed by individuals, not by the Congress, RJD or any political party. "We are demanding a JPC probe into the Rafale deal, it is our old demand. We will not sit silent but intensify our agitation for the probe."

He said the Bharatiya Janata Party should not be happy as the opposition will take the issue to people's court.

However the same demands were placed by Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday December 10 said that the Congress will press for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) inquiry into the Rafale deal demand of JPC on Rafaele was also raised by other Congress leader

After the supreme court verdict Randeep Surjewala, Congress spokesperson said “that the verdict of the Supreme Court today is a validation of what the Congress party stated months again, that SC is not the forum to decide the such sensitive defence contract. ”Therefore reasserting the demand for JPC probe in Rafaele