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Rafale Scam - SaafBaat
PM Modi has renegotiated the Rafale deal to great advantage of Ambanis and even greater disadvantage to India. He is now buying far fewer planes at multifold cost without any technology transfer – just to enrich The Ambanis.
Can India Stop Rafale Scam?
Normally, we come to know about a scam long after it has happened. But thanks to our credit-seeking PM and his Media which glorifies his failures as achievements, we the Indians are witnessing a scam in progress right now in front of our own eyes (if they’re open). Yes, we’re talking about Rafale Deal.
This scam not only involves our hard earned money but it also has serious implications for India’s security & morale of our Army. This also tells us for whom is the Hon’ble PM is actually working. For crores of Indians who voted for him or for his cronies who fund his election campaigns.
We’ll have to understand the scam first. The Deal involves purchase of 36 Rafale fighter planes from France through Government to Government deal done by our Hon’ble PM.
History of the Rafale Deal
IAF (Indian Air Force) is in dire need of around 200 so called MMRCA (Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft) since 2001. UPA approved the demand in 2007 and initiated the bidding. Many companies responded & finally Dassault won the bidding in 2012 to provide 126 Rafales at US$ 10.2 Billion, 18 jets to be provided ready-to-fly and rest 108 to be Made in India by HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) via technology transfer.
1.K., DEEPALAKSHMI. 2016. All you need to know about Rafale deal. The Hindu. April 16. [Source]
2.France’s Dassault wins IAF fighter deal. 2012. The New Indian Express. January 31. [Source]
Dassault bid was the lowest and loaded with many benefits to India. Dassault was on the verge of bankruptcy and without this deal, France’s future as a defence supplier was in jeopardy. The deal Dassault offered after it’s unsuccessful attempts to export Rafales to Brazil & UAE, even China was nervous.
3.The Rafale deal and why it makes China nervous. 2013. Rediff. January 20. [Source]
So they offered their best deal and India awarded them the contract, and followed up with negotiations to iron-out the details. The negotiations ended when PM Modi changed the entire deal (turned it on it’s head, actually, totally scrapping the Original Deal
4.Government withdraws tender for 126 medium multi role combat aircraft: Manohar Parrikar – The Economic Times. 2015. The Economic Times. July 30. [Source] and announced purchase of 36 Ready-to-fly planes at almost 3-times the original cost from France. Bye Bye Make in India. Bye Bye Technology Transfer. Bye Bye all the benefits to India, based on which Dassault won the bid in the first place.
5.Rafale Jet Deal Doesn’t Comply with “Make in India” slogan. Defence Expert D. Raghunandan’s Interview. 2016. NewsClick. April 19. [Source]
Look at the brazen loot of Money in above Table.
Partnership and technology transfer to HAL in original contract was with a strategic objective of developing indigenous capability in the long run. India can’t keep on purchasing super-costly air crafts from other nations forever. Technology transfer and manufacturing of 108 jets in India by HAL was most important aspect of original deal, which Modi has done away with.
A PM who wants to make India a super power doesn’t do such scams and Insult India world over. The deal, as it stands today, is a full blown scam to loot India and benefits Mr Modi’s cronies.
What caused the change in deal?
So why did Hon’ble PM Modi spoil a sweet deal benefiting India (from a desperate company in serious need of business) into an outrageous losing proposition to empty India’s coffers to enrich France’s? What really happened?
Mukesh Ambani Happened. Anil Ambani Happened.
Within less than 2 weeks after Dassault bagged India’s 126 MMRCS deal, Mukesh Ambani became Dassault’s partner.
Reliance enters defence manufacture with Rafale maker. 2012. Rediff. February 13.[Source]
So did Anil Ambani, afterwards
Anil Ambani’s Reliance Group Awarded Contract Worth ₹22,000 Crore From India’s Rafale Jet Fighter Deal. 2016. Huffington Post India. October 3. [Source]
Surprised? Now Dassault, which was ready to provide 126 Rafales at US$ 10.2 Billion, 18 ready to fly and 108 to be made in India by HAL asked additional money for weapons systems and technology transfer stretching the deal from 10.2 Billion to 18-22 Billion US$. Not only this, they refused to provide any guarantee for planes made by HAL. In short, they broke every single clause, rider in the original contract.
Why? Greed, of course! When Dassault entered the bid, it had no leverage and much to lose if it didn’t get the bid. Dassault was desperate, it’s reputation of being non-transparent in it’s business (rated worst – F Band by transparency international) wasn’t helping it much and Dassault’s CEO himself was mired in charges of financial irregularities.
French billionaire Dassault to face trial for tax fraud. 2016. The Times Of India. March 21.[Source]
But Dassault-Ambani partnership changed everything. Now, Ambani – who owned most of BJPCon politicians, thus owned the government itself, was Dassault’s partner. (BJP-Congress are not two different parties. Think, how many corrupt people of each other did they send behind the bar?). So Dassault-Ambani started arm twisting Indian government to get the most out of the deal. Read about Ambani’s Gas Scams to know about his arm twisting prowess.
Rai, Siddhartha. 2015. Dassault ranked among the least transparent defence companies. Mail Online. April 26. [Source]
Thankfully, it wasn’t that easy. At first whiff of corruption, A K Antony – considered a rare honest politician in BJPCon flock (then Defence Minister of UPA) stopped serious negotiations, delaying the deal. So Dassault-Ambani had to wait out 2 more years until Modi became PM. Modi-Ambani unholy nexus is not a secret anymore. Modi shamelessly lends his face (PM’s credibility) to Ad campaigns of Ambani’s commercial products (Jio). So as soon as Modi had an opportunity, he ratified the deal that is most disadvantageous to India and Most profitable to Dassault-Ambani. What’s more, PM single handedly took this decision, perhaps without even getting formal cabinet nod. Defence minister Parrikar himself wasn’t aware of the deal before 48 hours of the announcement. Crazy, eh?
It’s been said that Modi’s top guns Jaitly, Parrikar etc are not happy with Modi’s Deal. Subramanian Swamy of BJP has publicly spoken against and written a letter to PM Modi to stop this deal.
Peri, Dinakar. 2015. Swamy to move court if Rafale deal is finalised. The Hindu. April 10.[Source]
He even threatened to file a PIL to stop the deal. A Rajya Sabha Seat has silenced him about his PIL to stop Rafale Scam. Of course, no one is talking about it, because most of Indian Media has been reduced to Modi’s cheerleaders. But for how long?
The scam is not in purchasing Rafale. Scam is at the outrageous price the jets are being purchased for and that too with terms which are totally unfair to India, trashing all the original objectives of the deal. India doesn’t need just jets. It needs cost-effective technology. If India had appointed our enemy Hafiz Saeed to negotiate a deal with Dassault-Ambani for us, even he might have come up with a better deal than Modi’s Deal!
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