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PANAJI
On a day when the Supreme Court dismissed the review petitions seeking probes into the controversial Rafale deal, Utpal Parrikar used Twitter to chide former Congress president Rahul Gandhi for using the controversy to gain political brownie points just as he had used his father’s and former defence minister the late Manohar Parrikar’s ill-health for the same
reasons.
“#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 an ill-planned political game, just the way he used visit to my ailing father for politics,” the tweet posted by Utpal said on Thursday.
Earlier on Thursday the SC turned down the review petition which sought a probe into the multi-billion rupees deal to purchase the fighter jet from the French government.
In the run-up to the general elections this year, the BJP had cried foul after Gandhi had called on an ailing Parrikar in January on a “courtesy visit”, and later allegedly used the meeting to take forward his anti-Rafale deal campaign.
