{"id":47295,"date":"2018-11-15T11:41:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T11:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=47295"},"modified":"2018-11-15T11:41:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T11:41:56","slug":"rafale-not-a-govt-to-govt-deal-cong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/rafale-not-a-govt-to-govt-deal-cong\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafale not a \u2018govt to govt\u2019 deal: Cong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi,<br \/>\nOn a day when the Supreme Court began hearing petitions questioning the Rafale deal between India and France, the opposition Congress levelled fresh allegations against the government as part of its ongoing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the 36 aircraft deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRafale is not a government-to-government contract,\u201d Congress leader Kapil Sibal alleged, adding that France had no provision for entering into a such deal and had only given a letter of comfort to Dassault which negotiated the contract with the BJP-led government privately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDassault Aviation should make a public statement if they ever had a government-to-government contract as there is no such procedure in France. Such a procedure exists in the UK and is called Foreign Military Sales route. The French Government gave only a letter of comfort in the Rafale deal,\u201d Sibal alleged.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, On a day when the Supreme Court began hearing petitions questioning the Rafale deal between India and France, the opposition Congress levelled fresh allegations against the government as part of its ongoing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the 36 aircraft deal. \u201cRafale is not a government-to-government contract,\u201d Congress leader Kapil Sibal [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47297,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47295\/revisions\/47297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}