THE Congress today (14) accused the Modi government of compromising and overruling national security by reducing the purchase of the Rafale fighter aircraft to save money.
Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala hit out at the BJP after Indian minister Nitin Gadkari reportedly admitted that the Rafale deal was curtailed due to do financial constraints.
"Finally, truth is out! 'National Security' stumped by a pseudo-nationalist Modi Govt," Surjewala tweeted.
"No. of Rafale aircrafts reduced from 126 to 36 for saving money overruling Air Force and Nation's security!" he added.
Gadkari had said the government's "financial availability" dictated the decision to bring down the order of the Rafale fighter jets from 126 to 36 in its purchase agreement.
Army personnel stand amid the rubble following an explosion inside the police headquarters at Kohat in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on September 18, 2026. An explosion at a historic police headquarters in northern Pakistan on September 18 killed at least eight people and wounded 35 more, officials said, with the country's president swiftly blaming a militant group. Getty Images
Mourners read the holy Quran while sitting around the grave of a paramilitary personnel of the Frontier Corps (FC) who was killed during the Afghanistan-Pakistan border clashes, in Kohat on October 17, 2025. A ceasefire along the frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan was holding on October 16, officials on both sides said, after dozens of troops and civilians were killed in cross-border clashes.Getty Images
