Utpal Parrikar hit out at the Congress leader on Twitter after the Supreme Court’s ruling on Rafale.
Soon after Rafale verdict, Manohar Parrikar’s son posted series of tweets hitting out at Congress. (File)
उत्पल Parrikar@uparrikar#RafaleVerdict is out and I hope this is a good learning experience for @RahulGandhi . I can give benefit of doubt that he did all this as part of Ill-planned political game, just the way he used visit to my ailing father for politics. (1/3)
Because the alternate is to cast a suspicion the least of which is Industrial espionage if you believe news reports about him pal around with UK based defence offset contractor or worst treasonous behaviour of secretly hobnobbing with Ambassador of adversarial country even (2/3)
during Doklam standoff. So sure in absence of anyhard evidence I’ll give benefit of doubt and wish he learned thing or two from this saga. #Rafale #RafaleVerdict (3/3)
Mr Gandhi had claimed that Manohar Parrikar told him that he (as defence minister) was kept in the dark by prime minister Narendra Modi about changes made in the Rafale fighter aircraft deal.
Mr Parrikar had denied Mr Gandhi’s claim, saying the Congress leader should not misuse a five-minute courtesy visit for political mileage.
Prasanta Patnaik