COIMBATORE: Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman Friday took a swipe at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi's comments in regards to the Rafale deal, pronouncing he's 'a perplexed man' as he has been pronouncing different things about it over time.
She used to be responding to questions from newshounds right here on Gandhi's comments over the issue, that the Rafale deal used to be between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and businessman Anil Ambani.
"You don't get confused...Rahul Gandhi is a confused man. He talks about different rates over the deal at different times. Besides, he has been saying at different places that we (government) had helped many persons...sometimes he says it is Adani and sometimes Ambani," she said.
The Congress has accused the government of forcing Dassault Aviation to make Reliance Defence its offset partner for the Rs 58,000 crore deal to buy 36 Rafale jets.
The Congress has alleged that the government used to be serving to the Anil Ambani crew get a freelance price Rs 30,000 crore from the deal.
However, the Reliance Group, in a commentary, has said Dassault Aviation's investment in Reliance Airport Developers Limited has no link with the Rafale fighter jet deal, and has accused Congress of resorting to "blatant lies" for political positive aspects.
The minister declined to comment on AIADMK MP and Lok Sabha deputy Speaker M Thambidurai's rate that the Centre has not launched Rs 18,000 crore pending funds for Tamil Nadu for more than a few schemes, pronouncing that she didn't know what he had in particular said.
Sitharaman said she however had a letter from Tamil Nadu chief minister K Palaniswami, thanking her for serving to the state secure the discharge of quantity.
She declined to take further questions on the Rafale issue.
Thambidurai had said in keeping with union minister Pon Radhakrishnan's comment that he should 'self introspect' when he requested for speedy disbursal of the volume, that the centre might announce schemes, however it used to be the state executive which implements them.
Funds are crucial for the implementation of any scheme, he had said.
The minister, who used to be right here to participate within the announcement of 12 schemes as reinforce and outreach for MSMEs by way of the Prime Minister thru video conferencing, said 182 applications had thus far been uploaded, in search of loans and in concept approval given for Rs 47.50 crore for MSMEs in Coimbatore.
She used to be responding to questions from newshounds right here on Gandhi's comments over the issue, that the Rafale deal used to be between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and businessman Anil Ambani.
"You don't get confused...Rahul Gandhi is a confused man. He talks about different rates over the deal at different times. Besides, he has been saying at different places that we (government) had helped many persons...sometimes he says it is Adani and sometimes Ambani," she said.
The Congress has accused the government of forcing Dassault Aviation to make Reliance Defence its offset partner for the Rs 58,000 crore deal to buy 36 Rafale jets.
The Congress has alleged that the government used to be serving to the Anil Ambani crew get a freelance price Rs 30,000 crore from the deal.
However, the Reliance Group, in a commentary, has said Dassault Aviation's investment in Reliance Airport Developers Limited has no link with the Rafale fighter jet deal, and has accused Congress of resorting to "blatant lies" for political positive aspects.
The minister declined to comment on AIADMK MP and Lok Sabha deputy Speaker M Thambidurai's rate that the Centre has not launched Rs 18,000 crore pending funds for Tamil Nadu for more than a few schemes, pronouncing that she didn't know what he had in particular said.
Sitharaman said she however had a letter from Tamil Nadu chief minister K Palaniswami, thanking her for serving to the state secure the discharge of quantity.
She declined to take further questions on the Rafale issue.
Thambidurai had said in keeping with union minister Pon Radhakrishnan's comment that he should 'self introspect' when he requested for speedy disbursal of the volume, that the centre might announce schemes, however it used to be the state executive which implements them.
Funds are crucial for the implementation of any scheme, he had said.
The minister, who used to be right here to participate within the announcement of 12 schemes as reinforce and outreach for MSMEs by way of the Prime Minister thru video conferencing, said 182 applications had thus far been uploaded, in search of loans and in concept approval given for Rs 47.50 crore for MSMEs in Coimbatore.
Rahul Gandhi is 'confused man' on Rafale, says Nirmala Sitharaman
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