Attacking the previous UPA government led by Congress, Sitharaman also revealed how the UPA government never utilised the defence budget for the acquisition of weapons and technology that was needed for Indian armed forces.
Think about the Air Force pilots who will have to fly these 40-year junk planes that we are purchasing from the Russian garbage dump in our desperation
The BJP claimed that the possession of internal emails of Airbus who is under scrutiny for its shady UPA era deals suggests that Rahul Gandhi is a defence lobbyist.
In what is very unfair treatment of brave journalism, it is Rahul Kanwal's voice and not Pallavi Ghosh's or Sagarika Ghose's that announces RaGa's rise to great power in India's politics.