If defence purchase processes are found to be faulty, they should be addressed at that level without questioning the equipment under procurement and adequately amended.
Nirmala Sitharaman had said recently that the UPA-era deal for 126 Rafales had fallen through because HAL did not have the capability to make the jets.
Admiral Dinesh Tripathi at annual media interaction ahead of Navy Day celebrations announced that an operational demonstration is expected at Thiruvananthapuram, President Murmu to attend.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
The story is currently heading towards a perilous course as it appears to be a more of an individual’s decision without any due process.Sanjiv bhatla’s comments look more like a lament of a bhakth and his comparison is too far fetched.
All this indirectly reminds me of 1975, and I kind of feel uneasy. Allahabad High Court had annulled Indira Gandhi’s election then. Now, the Supreme Court has on its own asked Modi government to explain the decision-making process of the Rafale deal. From the stuff we have been seeing in the news in last few months, there was no “process”, there was only a “decision”. What will the government show to SC on 29 October?
And now these three gentlemen have (very rightly) reached the apex court with the same Rafale lament. Mr Modi appears to be in the same kind of hopeless situation in which Indira Gandhi was in 1975. Not quite there yet, but fast moving towards it. The million dollar question is, “will Mr Modi’s response be the same as was Indira Gandhi’s?” This is the moment that will test Mr Modi’s mettle, his statesmanship, and even his greatness that once in a while shimmers out during his more lucid speeches.
The story is currently heading towards a perilous course as it appears to be a more of an individual’s decision without any due process.Sanjiv bhatla’s comments look more like a lament of a bhakth and his comparison is too far fetched.
All this indirectly reminds me of 1975, and I kind of feel uneasy. Allahabad High Court had annulled Indira Gandhi’s election then. Now, the Supreme Court has on its own asked Modi government to explain the decision-making process of the Rafale deal. From the stuff we have been seeing in the news in last few months, there was no “process”, there was only a “decision”. What will the government show to SC on 29 October?
And now these three gentlemen have (very rightly) reached the apex court with the same Rafale lament. Mr Modi appears to be in the same kind of hopeless situation in which Indira Gandhi was in 1975. Not quite there yet, but fast moving towards it. The million dollar question is, “will Mr Modi’s response be the same as was Indira Gandhi’s?” This is the moment that will test Mr Modi’s mettle, his statesmanship, and even his greatness that once in a while shimmers out during his more lucid speeches.