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There are reports that many Congressmen in Karnataka would bid goodbye to the party and join the BJP. With a view to offset this, Deve Gowda is mulling plans to offer the chief minister’s post to either senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge or former CM Siddaramaiah. By doing so, he hopes to keep the Congress flock together

 

In December, the apex court had rejected the petition that accused the government of deliberately procuring 36 Rafale fighter jets at an inflated price to help Anil Ambani’s newly formed defence firm get an offset contract with jet-maker Dassault Aviation.

To invest in the defence manufacturing corridors of Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, the offsets policy offers significant incentives for investment 

There is no factual basis of the Congress’s allegation that the Narendra Modi government favoured any company, Anil Ambani’s or anybody else’s, in choosing an offset partner for Dassault Aviation, the maker of Rafale fighter aircraft. But Rahul Gandhi is going on and on at the expense of the country’s defence preparedness.

Despite all his weaknesses, Digvijaya Singh is still the only big leader of Congress who has a pan-state presence and good hold on organisation. But his 10-year tenure has been successfully publicised as a ‘dark age’ by BJP

Asked about the controversy surrounding Dassault Aviation's choice of Anil Ambani's Reliance Defence as an offset partner, Sitharaman said each company involved in the supply will have its offset partners in India.