Govt should apologise for ‘misleading’ SC on Rafale: Kharge

New Delhi, December 15

A day after the Supreme Court verdict on the Rafale deal, Public Accounts Committee chairman Mallikarjun Kharge said on Saturday that he would request all members of the panel to summon the Attorney General and the CAG to ask them when was the public auditor’s report tabled in Parliament.

The senior Congress leader accused the government of “misleading” the Supreme Court by presenting wrong facts about the CAG report on the Rafale deal and demanded that the government should apologise for it.

Kharge also said they respected the Supreme Court, but it is not a probe agency and only a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) could investigate the alleged corruption in the Rafale deal.

“I will request the PAC members to call the Attorney General (AG) and the Comptroller and Auditor General to ask them when the CAG report on the Rafale deal was tabled in Parliament,” he told reporters.

Kharge also cited the Supreme Court judgment that stated that the CAG report on Rafale pricing had been tabled in Parliament and discussed in the PAC.

“When has the CAG discussed the PAC report? It has not been table so far. Wrong information is being fed in the Supreme Court, it is a matter of shock...Government should apologise for misleading the SC by presenting wrong facts on CAG report before the Supreme Court,” he said. PTI