February 8, 2019 1:42 PM

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Nirmala Sitharaman rejects media report on Rafale deal

<span style="color: #222222;">Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today rejected the media report on the Rafale deal  which appeared in an English daily. <br />''<br />''She charged that the opposition was playing into the hands of Multinational corporations. She said the newspaper report is incomplete as it carried only the then Defence Secretary's comment and ignored the comment of the then Defence minister. <br />''<br />''She said if the paper wanted to bring out truth, it would have approached the Defence ministry and done a thorough check. The minister emphatically said that every question on Rafale has been answered thoroughly.<br />''<br />''Earlier, TMC leader Prof Saugata Roy raised the issue alleging that  PMO was destroying the defence backbone of the country. <br />''<br />''Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge reiterated his party's demand to set up a JPC probe on the issue.</span><br />'' 

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