India's Defense Scams
                                                                                                                                                              The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi  is presently touring France on Goodwill visit. Meanwhile he has also signed so many agreements with France. One of the important agreements was buying 36 'Rafal Fighter' Aircrafts for  Indian Air force.

                                                       Dr Subramaniam Swami of ' BJP ' has objected the Deal on the ground that  fighter planes are not up to mark as per requirement of Indian  Air force. Besides that he also pointed out that it was a shady deal signed  during the time of  previous government wherein sisters of Sonia Gandhi's were also involved. He also threaten to challenge the agreement in the Court. In this even congress party also inciting him to do so.
                                                        This is not the first time defense deal which is being question on the ground of quality and corruption.  There are instances of shady and corrupt defense deals in the past.
 It will be interesting to note the following deals which became very controversial
                                                        1)  Krishna Menon  was a High commissioner of England in the year 1948. The 200 Jeeps were ordered for the defense purpose from England but only 155 Jeeps were only delivered. In the process India has to bare the loss of  80 lakhs then. The deal was not investigated further as Krishna  Menon was very close to Nehru then Prime Minister of India.

                                                         2) The Bofer Gun scam took place in the time of Rajive Gandhi wherein it is alleged that 63 Crore Rupees Commission was being paid. The names of  many appeared in the scam including of Rajive Gandhi then the Prime Minister.

                                                         3) It is said that there was scam in the year 1999  in respect of the 'Coffins for dead bodies of Kargil War Soldiers'.
                                                         4) In the year 2000 India purchased 'Barak Missiles of about 1150 crores from Israel.  However they were not up to mark and some scam was alleged for the same.

                                                         5) Besides that there were 'Tatra Trucks and Augusta Wasteland Helicopter scams also propped up thereafter.

                                                           The defense of India  is very important as it is  surrounded by hostile Countries like Pakistan, China and Bangladesh etc. Therefore India is compelled to buy defense equipment of thousands of crores. However in the process it is very unfortunate that crores of rupees are being cornered through scams by the undesirable elements.  God  save India from such people and hope the present government clear the country from this Mess
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