The Congress has promised to provide cash support to the poorest 20 percent households of the country if it is voted to power in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The party promised to target five crore families or 25 crore individuals as beneficiaries of the scheme.
OpIndia has accessed evidence to show that Sonia Gandhi's Italian family could have been involved in the Bofors scandal, with their names carefully hidden from the public eye
The probe which began in July 2017 after the government had ordered a probe into the Pilatus deal. The CBI had begun an investigation into the Rs. 2900 crore Pilatus deal which allegedly involved an absconding arm dealer, Sanjay Bhandari, close to both Rahul Gandhi and Robert Vadra.
ED tracked down the money trail of kickbacks received by Christian Michel and it has led them to Moser Baer which is owned by Deepak Puri, who is close to senior Congress leader Kamal Nath.
The letter also adds the manner in which Chidambaram has managed to secure interim protection from arrest as many as seven times from Judge OP Saini after being present at the bail hearings in his senior advocate gown.
Christian Michel with another middleman Guido Haschke had worked on a plan to lobby for Eurofighter against Rafale in order to win the deal in its favour.