Watch: Kapil Sibal on how Modi govt presented wrong facts in Supreme Court on Rafale

Slamming the Modi government for providing wrong facts to the Supreme Court on Rafale pricing, veteran Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Saturday, December 15 said that the Attorney General should be called before the PAC and asked why wrong facts were presented to the Supreme Court.

Calling it a “factual bloomers” Sibal asserted that the apex court was neither the right forum to examine the corruption in the deal nor the verdict was a “clean chit” for the Modi government.

Kapil Sibal asserted that providing wrong facts to the government is a very serious matter and only a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe can bring the truth.

“We need to call the Attorney General to the PAC and get this issue clarified as to why these assertions were made before the court and why such an affidavit was filed which did not reflect true facts. The responsibility lies with the Attorney General for allowing such wrong facts to be submitted before the court. It is a serious issue and there will be discussions on this in parliament and the PAC will call the Attorney General,”said the former Union Law Minister.

Pointing to the Supreme Court not adjudicating on matters of pricing or the technical aspects of the jet’s deal, Sibal ridiculed the Modi government for tom-toming the verdict as a clean chit.

“It is childish that the government and the BJP is claiming victory. Finance Minister should read less of fiction,” said Sibal, adding that Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman should apologise for their assertions that the Congress had jeopardised national security by politicising the defence deal.

Clarifying Congress’ position on the issue vis-a-vis court’s decision, Sibal said the party has always maintained that the Supreme Court is not the appropriate forum because, it cannot examine all the file notings or examine witnesses on oath including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the defense ministry officials, who need to be questioned.