AgustaWestland deal: Congress knew where 'Ganga of corruption' was flowing, says Manohar Parrikar
Maintaining Heat On The Congress, The Government Today Said The Previous UPA Government Had “done Everything' To Help AgustaWestland Bag The Contract For VVIP Helicopters And Asserted That It Will Track Down The Main Beneficiaries Of The Kickbacks In The Deal.
Maintaining heat on the Congress, the government today said the previous UPA government had “done everything” to help AgustaWestland bag the contract for VVIP helicopters and asserted that it will track down the main beneficiaries of the kickbacks in the deal.Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said in the Lok Sabha that former Air chief S P Tyagi and Gautam Khaitan, both accused in the case, are “small people” who “simply washed their hands in a flowing ganga (of corruption)” and that the government will “find out where the river was going”.Speaking on a Calling Attention Motion on the chopper deal, he took a dig at Congress, saying it seemed to know where this “ganga was going”. He said the UPA government had “done everything” to help AgustaWestland bag the contract and that its action against the company following the disclosure of corruption was not pro-active but “forced by circumstances”.Tyagi and Khaitan were “small people who simply washed their hands in a flowing ganga (of corruption)”, Parrikar said, asserting that the government will track down the main beneficiaries of the kickbacks in the Rs 3600 crore deal for 12 VVIP choppers.
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