 And like the last time we have prepared a very comprehensive, if I could use expression, research paper for your benefit, which says what we want to say and supports with documents what we are saying in the 14 page statement. So like last time I will stop here and request my colleague Arun Shoridhi to take over and take you through our statement point wise and explain everything. After that Mr. Prashant Pushan might like to add to what we have to say and then we will be able to take your questions. Thank you. Friends, as Mr. Yashwant Sinha has just explained, we have gone through the new documents, second that these explanations or excuses as he said actually also put out by the government and on behalf of government by others and by Mr. Anil Ambani how they contradict well established facts at that point and the examination results in two facts. One is that it shows the direct culpability of the prime minister personally in what has transpired. There is no escaping at all. There is a number that they are caught in this web of lies. Each time they give an explanation they caught further in the web of lies and the fact that they are resorting to such lies shows that they have a lot to hide and as Prashant said last time that it is a scam of the proportion which we have not seen thus far at all. And the statement which has been distributed to you covers five points and I will go through them one by one quickly and then of course Prashant knows these facts much better than I do Yashwant ji with his long experience can answer your questions in this way. The first point that comes through is that the prime minister had absolutely that there is no doubt that within two days the prime minister completely overturned exercises that had been going on for almost seven, eight years and he had absolutely no authority to do this at all under the defense procurement policy and the guidelines. Second fact is that the government has said no, no, no, but he exercised discretion. In fact there is absolutely no scope for discretion prior to anything that happened. The fact that comes through is that their lies on price just become more and more ensnare than even more and more as you will see there. Fourth of course are the complete falsehoods, right falsehoods in regard to offsets which Prashant has termed as the indicator of payback in this regard and finally this minister for blogging gave a new argument about urgency that there was a great urgency and therefore 36 planes have to be immediately procured and you will see that his own statements in parliament absolutely contradict that fact completely. So I just take you to these things. The first point is about the direct culpability of the prime minister. Here, as you know the deal was announced on the 10th of April 2015. 10th of April 2015, please remember that and Jitli in his own blog or Facebook page he says that the approval of the defense acquisition comes that was taken on the 13th of May 2015. One month after the deal was already announced, he admits that. Second is that he says that there is government exercise political discretion but in fact no discretion is allowed and any discretion or decision has to be preceded by recommendations from the Indian Air Force, Ministry of Defense, DRDO and so on. And the statements of Panikar made just two or three days after the announcement showed that none of these recommendations were ever asked for or received and that in fact the Ministry of Defense was completely unaware of what was happening. So the usurpation of a property is seen in five ways. First, about the quantity of the purchase that instead of let's say 126 aircraft you are going to procure the property here. And the procurement policy states that all capital acquisitions shall be based on services quality requirements, SQR. So you can't change the quantity at all. Second, after the quantity is determined the procurement policy says how will it be procured? Will it be made in India? Will it be purchased from an Indian vendor, through an Indian vendor and then made in India? Third, will it be procured from a foreign vendor and then manufactured in India under this license or transfer of technology? Or fourth, which is the least preferred alternative, will it be purchased completely from a foreign vendor as is happening in 36 aircraft? Now this cannot be changed by the Prime Minister or anybody else. This has to be done by a committee called the Capitalization Committee. They decide which of these four alternatives you shall get the equipment through. And if a lesser preferred alternative is chosen then they must clearly state the reasons in their documentation why we are going for this rather than that. So here you go to the case in which 126 aircraft were to be procured, 18 were to be procured directly and the other 108 were to be made in India under transfer of technology. So it was a very high preferred alternative. This was jettisoned and you didn't go back to the Capitalization Committee and you just announced 36 will all come from abroad. So he had no authority to do this at all. Third was there is a thing called, after all these procedures have been gone through then there is a thing called the acceptance of necessity by the Defence Acquisition Council. Once that AON comes then everything is set in stone and you cannot through back channels alter it. Now JT himself has suggested the date on which the AON was given by the Defence Acquisition Council and there is no record at all of another Defence Acquisition where this acceptance of necessity having been given at all. So how did the Prime Minister change it? Fourth is this whole business of, there are India specific AONs. Now actually speaking if you see the joint statement issued from the Prime Minister of India and the President of France, originally they say the aircraft and associated systems and weapons would be delivered on the same configuration as had been tested and approved by the Indian Air Force. So where is this all the AONs that you say you have were already included in the negotiation in the trial which was going on from 2007 to 2012 and after that by the discussions with Rafael and with Eurofighter and so on and the ultimate choice of Rafael. So this whole thing that now they are giving out the list of what are the AONs of high altitude, high temperature, but all that is already included. So it has a bearing both on the fact that we did not go back to the Defence Acquisition Council and on the question of price. And finally the Minister of State himself said in parliament in November 23, 9, 2016 that for the purchase inter-governmental agreement with the Government of French Republic has been signed on 23, 9, 2016 for purchase of 36 refueled aircraft along with requisite equipments, services and weapons. And the cost of each refueled aircraft shall be rupees 670 crores only. How it has become 1660 crores? 1000 crores more without you going back to any of the committees which are mandatory under the Defence Acquisition Procedures. Finally they said now government has discretion but actually under the Defence Procurement Policy government has discretion only on one point. And that point is whether you will go for a deal with the vendor or it will be an inter-governmental deal. But that does not affect either the specifications or the quantity or the category in which you will procure the whole thing. So this is one point. There are two points. Firstly the Prime Minister had no authority and therefore his culpability for violating these procedures. Second, he had no discretion to change either the categorization or the number or the specifications. Third point is the question of price of how the 670 crores become 1660 crores. First they said it is secret. No, there is a secrecy agreement with France. If there is a secrecy agreement with France then how did the Ministry of State say that there is 670 crores? How did Paris say that it is 715 crores per plane? How is your reverence secrecy does now? And more important than that is that actually speaking the Ministry of Defence itself really, you know they say no, no this is very important because this is a nuclear weapons capable aircraft. But so is the Mirage and in 2012 the Ministry of Defence itself revealed the price of the Mirage and its upgrade for this purpose. We have given you that statement of the Ministry of Defence at that time. And finally while the government says there is secrecy as Prashant pointed out last time also in their own press releases both the reliance and the assault have revealed the prices itself in their financial statements. And yet you are hiding behind this cloak of secrecy. This is exactly like the government hiding behind the confidentiality clause in Bofors. This is the customer confidentiality. Fourth thing was on offsets. Here this Anilambani have combined forces in what they have put out. Firstly they say the Indian government had no role at all. But actually speaking if you see we have quoted the clauses. They say firstly they had no role. Secondly that the offset partner, the obligation that I have given all those facts but I will give you just some of the small things so that we can hear Krishnaji and Prashant. The clause 7-2 says that the offset guidelines it mandates that the technical and commercial offset proposals have to be submitted within 12 weeks of the date of submission of the main technical commercial procurement proposals. So you have to submit them. And this includes the details of the Indian offset partners and their respected work share. Circuit clause 8-4 says that the commercial offset offer will contain the detailed offer specifying the value of the total offset commitment components with the breakdown of the details, phasing, etc. Third clause 2-4 says offset contract will be executed simultaneously with the main contract. They say no no no this information will come to us in 2019 when the whole thing is over. To prevent the fact that the fellow sells to the planes and then runs away and does nothing about offset the thing is you have to execute it simultaneously and you have to inform me in advance. And says the approval of the government. That is the next thing. That clause 8-6 says that all offset proposals will be processed by the acquisitions manager and approved by the Raksha Mantri. So how did you now say that you don't know anything at all? Then clause 8-11 says that the defense office or offset management win may in fact recommend changes in the offset partner. If you just not even know who your partner is how will you recommend changes? As Yashwantji reminded us yesterday that in this Russian, that country called company they had, that is one effect of Prashant's work. They had chosen Adani as their offset partner. As the government said they didn't know Adani, they were all out. So how did you reject the fellow? Then you don't even know and you have no power and it is the deal entirely between their salt and Anil Ambani. Then how did you reject another friend Adani? Then clause 8.8 says that the vendor in this case their salt shall submit 6 monthly reports to the defense offset management win. 6 monthly reports and you say I will not know till the end of 2019 but he is submitting your reports, he has to submit them and so on. In fact there is a very interesting press release of the Ministry of Defense which has been annexed there of 24th July 2015 which says the FDI policy for the defense sector has been reviewed and as per the revised policy the competent foreign investment up to 49% is allowed through government route of FIPB. Who presides over the FIPB? The Minister of Finance Arun Jaitley. So he must have personally approved that old proposal. And today we are saying that we have to back up. We don't have to tell anyone. We don't have to tell anyone. Then the second question which was raised in this regard to offset which was mired in debt, I think the Hindu report was that 1,21,000 crore debt they had at that time. The whole group. The whole group. And the FIP, the power company that already had Reliance Naval Defense. They have already got a debt of 1,400 crore or something like that. So they will select that kind of a company which has no experience now to cover up the charge of no experience. They said no, no, no. But we have to follow this report. Now it turned out that actually they were not supplying the vessels to the navy for which they had undertaken a contract. The second thing was that actually while these people said that they were citing that particular shipyard as their basis for experience, as their evidence of experience, it turns out that firstly those naval offshore patrol vessels were not being supplied. In fact the dispute has been raised about them. Second, the firms independent auditors, Arthur, HD and Associates have questioned the other money debt firms ability to continue as a going concern. A fact admitted by Reliance in its communication to the Navy and it is given that applications have been made to the national company Lord Tribunal under the insolvency and bankruptcy code as a binding of petition has been filed. So the one that you were citing the evidence of your experience is in that state. Then after that you were saying that when they got caught they said that they were not even making a screw. So Prashant had asked that they were not even making a screw in India. So then what are you getting? 21,000 crores for? So then they started saying, no, actually they were very interested in it. There is a press release of Reliance which is annexed there which says it was issued on the occasion of the inauguration of the joint venture facility in Mehan near Northwood. Which was attended by Mr. Curry and Mr. Ferdinandis. It was attended by Mr. Ferdinandis on the 27th of October and it was claimed, what did Reliance say it was doing at that time? Did they say we are not going to produce a screw? What is the facility for? On the presently they said under joint venture company DRAM the facility will manufacture several components of the offset application connected to the purchase of 36 level fighters from France. Furthermore, these first steps are expected to achieve in the coming years the possible setting up of a final assembly of Reliance. And now you said, no, I will not produce a screw. Therefore, I need no experience. And in fact, if you were not producing any one of those items then there is a list of the type of items in the guideline offset guidelines which you have to produce. All of those require great experience and great technological ability. Those have also been listed here. It is called clause 2.2 of the offset guidelines. So, this whole concoction that the government did not need to know government did not know about offsets and in any case the experience is irrelevant. Because not a screw is being produced is complete nonsense. I will just end with one other point. And that is urgency. There was an urgency to get the 36 planes. In fact, these facts revealed the opposite. If you are stuck to the original agreement then the plane would already be here and the manufacturing would already have started. Now, as has been pointed out by Indian Express and other media it is that the first plane will come only towards the end of 2019 if it comes at that time and the others will come sometime in 2022 and no manufacture in India at all. Look at what Abun Jitli himself told the parliament in 2014. The 18 fly away aircraft are expected. What is he talking about? The original deal. No new deal. This is in from 8 of us 2014 and please remember within a few months the whole thing will be overturned. He said the 18 aircraft, the direct fly away aircraft are expected to be delivered in 3 to 4 years from the signing of the contract. The remaining 108 licensed manufactured aircraft in India are expected to be delivered during the following 7 years. This shows one that he was talking of the deal as it was at that time and second that it was the old deal and there was secondly no hint of any emergency situation at all. So between August 2014 and April 2015 what happened? In fact, there is a fast track procedure under the defence procurement policy but that says that the adoption of the fast track procedure to meet urgent operational requirements will be authorised by Special Defence Acquisition Committee meeting chaired by the Raksha Mantri personally based on the proposal moved by the representatives of the respective services with the approval of the concerned service chief. So you can't just have a fast track procedure in two days and one night in Paris. This committee would comprise of the service chiefs, defence secretary, secretary defence production, secretary R and D, secretary defence finance, director general acquisition, headquarters, ITSC, ITS integrated defence services and other officials of the MOD. No such meeting is on record at all and then even more important they say that this fast track procedure is meant for only one thing and that is for operational requirements at that time. If you have ammunition, there are guns but there is no ammunition. The fight has begun. You can't then wait for the whole process. Then the fast track procedure is adopted and they say that the projected requirement must be related to an offer. What is this? How does this happen? They say that the projected requirement must be related to an operational situation foreseen as imminent or for a situation where a crisis has emerged without prior gardening. Now, this is not meant for acquisition of 126 aircraft or 36 aircraft over 7 years. This is meant for something, image, ammunition, bombs, missiles. So, this entire concoction is a lie just to hoodwink people in the confidence that nobody will look at the defence acquisition policy. So, all this establishes firstly, this cutting down from 126 to 36 compromise India's security. Second, there are this whole section of add-ons is an absolute falsehood. Third, there is no explanation for how prices, the price increased from 60 to 70 crores to 60 to 160 crores. How HAL was excluded? When three, four days before the new agreement was announced by Modi, the CEO of the soldier said that we are very happy with the chain and they had signed a work share agreement with them. There is no transfer of technology now. Far from there being any urgency, there is in fact been a delay as I pointed out to you. The offsets are an absolute scam and they are caught in a web of lies of their own devising and finally that the entire operation has been done by one man and that is the prime minister and all the lies are being fabricated only to protect that one man who is responsible for this overturning the exercise from 2007 to 2015. Thank you. Let me just remind you of what we had briefly summarized what we had said last time. I will speak a little Hindi. There are a lot of Hindi journalists here. Last time when we had a press conference, we had told that after the Bofors, there was a very elaborate defence procurement procedure to prevent these kinds of scams. This was written in the procedure. Let me briefly tell you what is its brief. It is written that first, what do we want, our army, the army of the air, the army of the land, the navy, what do we want? First, the services, they will discuss with each other and tell us what we want, what is our need. After that, when they tell us this, the categorization committee will go and tell us that there is a very elaborate categorization committee that looks at what needs to be bought whether to buy from India, or to buy from India, or from abroad, or to buy from abroad, or to buy from India, all these categories are different. After that, the defense acquisition council in which the defense ministers, service chiefs, and the people of finance are all there. Then the defense acquisition council makes an acceptance of necessity that yes, we want this, we have agreed that we want this, and it will be taken from this way, some will be made here, some will come from abroad, and after that, a tender issue is issued. In this defense acquisition, the medium range combat aircraft that were being bought, the Air Force first discussed the entire issue and said that we need at least 126 aircraft. After that, the categorization committee said that we can buy 18 of these from abroad in direct flyway condition, but the rest should be made in India with transfer of technology so that we can be self-sufficient in it. After that, the defense acquisition council accepted this and in 2007, it was issued a tender. After that, 6 companies bid, 2 were shortlisted, 5 years later, in 2012, the desolded company that makes the air force, was declared as L1. After that, the price negotiations started and the government of Modi is running the price negotiations. After that, the price negotiations continue. In March 2015, Eric Trappier, the CEO of the desolded company, said that the price negotiations are almost over. 95% is complete. And we are looking forward to working with those 10 aeronautics for manufacturing these aircraft in the HAL factory. After that, Modi Ji is going out. So, before leaving 8th October, Foreign Secretary says in his statement, that the ongoing discussions of Modi Ji, will increase the air force in the future. The day Modi Ji reaches there, the day it is signed, in the morning, President Hollande of France says that Modi Ji is coming here and he will talk to me. And the deal of the 166th air force, will increase a bit. And that day, in the evening, in the morning, a completely old deal is thrown away. A new deal is thrown away. After that, even Hollande didn't know about it. Even the Air Force didn't know about it. Even the Defence Minister didn't know about it. Even the Parikar didn't know about it. Only Faneel Ambani knew about it. And the deal is that 36 aircraft will come in ready to fly condition. Not 166 will come. Only 36 will come. No transfer of technology will happen. And the same configuration will come. The same weapons systems will be in the same thing in the air force. The Indian Air Force has already approved the deal of the 166th air force. So, as I told you Mr. Arun Ji, the first question is that how is it done from 166th to 36th? There was no right because the Defence Procurement and Procedure already has a service. The Air Force said that we don't need 166, only 36. They didn't say anything. Even the Defence Minister didn't know about it. They said that the committee didn't have any transfer of technology. They don't need 166, only 36. They didn't approve it either. So, how did the 166th air force disappear? How did the transfer of technology disappear? How did the HL disappear? And from the back of the air force we get water. We get water in the name of the offset. Earlier it was said that it would be better to negotiate the deal of the 166th air force. Now, there was no 10th air force to negotiate the deal of the 166th air force. But there are many doubts. Mr. Parikar himself signs the Prime Minister on 10th April in the Netherlands. Mr. Parikar asks Mr. Parikar why did the 166th air force disappear? Why did the 166th air force disappear? He says that the 166th air force was very expensive. The price of the air force was Rs. 9000 crores. That is, Rs. 715 crores for one air force. Then in the parliament in November 2016 the Minister of State for Defense said that the 166th air force was worth Rs. 670 crores. But when it comes to Reliance and Dessert both say in their statements that the cost of the 166th air force is Rs. 7000 crores. That is, Rs. 1,600 crores. And he also says that from this time the offset of the major chunk is Rs. 70 percent. The offset is Rs. 3,000 crores. It is a deal of Rs. 7,000 crores. Half of it is the offset of Rs. 3,000 crores. The major chunk of it is Reliance. When it all starts to open up that what has happened? From the beginning the offset of Rs. 1,126 was worth Rs. 3,000 crores. Secondly, Made in India disappeared. The Indian aeronautics disappeared. Reliance and the air force was worth Rs. 6,000 crores. And then we are given all this money. First it is said that Mr. Jetli has given it. No. When it came in 2015 even in the old deal the amount of air force would have increased a lot. So why did Parikal Saad say that Rs. 106 crores of air force would not be worth Rs. 5,000 crores. He was the defence minister at that time. That is, Rs. 715 crores would have been in the old deal. Even then it is said that in the old deal the amount of air force would have increased a lot. Then the second lie is that in India there are specific addons. We have put a helmet on something new. You can also see the back of the helmet. Rs. 500 crores is the amount of air force. The helmet. That means such a lie that in the statement of the Prime Minister it was said directly that the joint statement of Rs. 2,015 crores was given the aircrafts will come in exactly the same configuration and with the same weapons maintenance etc. which have already been tested by the Air Force. So where did the India specific addons come from? And if there were Indian specific addons it also has a procedure. You cannot say that. You can buy a helmet and give Rs. 1,000 crores of helmet. So this is what happened that we bought a vehicle of Rs. 10 lakhs but now let's buy a seatbelt and put Rs. 50 lakhs of seatbelt on it. You know there is a limit of credibility. How much will you make you have thought that the people of this country are all fools. No matter what you say everyone will agree that the India specific addons cost Rs. 1,000 crores. If there were Indian specific addons then it has a system. First we will have to tell the Air Force that we want this. After that we will go to the categorization committee where to buy it. After that we will go to the defense acquisition council. Then it happened in May in May 2015 that means in a month everything happened. Before that the old minister announced himself that he will buy a seatbelt and will buy it in the same configuration. Now there is no need of transfer of technology. Now he will be ready to fly directly from there. And in a month everyone has put on a helmet and added addons. Now who are you fooling? How foolish do you think the country is? After seeing so many lies we will keep on talking. We will see all these things and say that nothing is known. That means the defense ministry doesn't say anything. It is being told by other ministers. You know in India it is saying that when the finance ministry is talking about demonetization the defense ministry is talking about it. When the referral deal is being talked about the vlogging minister is talking about it. That means it is amazing. Then they say this is a government to government deal. Government to government deal doesn't mean you will do anything. It is the same thing that Anil Ambani the wife of a partner is making a film for him. He has invested 200 crore rupees in making his film. And that deal was signed on the day when the Dutch came to the republic and at the same time he has started this referral deal again. It is a good thing that government to government deal and they say that 600 crore is very less and we give you 16 crore rupees. Now out of this 21,000 crore give it to officers we will make a film for your partner that government to government deal means something understand the country that you will make a film for the country and they will say we have made a government to government deal we don't need to tell them anything we have signed a secrecy agreement that means the law of India will not be applied right to information will not be applied we can't even tell every day the minister of state told in parliament that 670 crore is enough Jatli ji says they are cheaper than the ones who were coming earlier why are you telling when there is a secrecy agreement and the people who are sitting in the media every day they give such statements and this is a 500 crore helmet and so on means like they say in 2019 if we win then we will have 50 years that means the country is thinking that after that we will have 50 years and they think there is no power there is no law do whatever you want and everyone will follow and look at the new thing that now we are making this story that no, the Indian Aeronautics is a bogus company the desolder company wanted to work with this bogus company because of this Indian Aeronautics means our own public sector company who has a lot of experience of making aircraft you are making him jealous to justify your deal you when Drapier was in Drapier and when he was in Drapier 2 weeks ago on 25th March 2015 we are very happy with the Aeronautics and we are looking forward to making the aircraft in India with them and the work share agreement they signed and then you are saying that no, Indian Aeronautics is a bogus company and public sector is a bogus company this will do a good job it will do a good job which the company is in full cash in bankruptcy in 2G scam everything is fine but it will do a good job that it should get 1K to 2K and secondly you are lying to the vice chief of Air Force you have told them that no, Air Force said that it is very good that you take 30 days leave absolutely lie I am telling you lie this is the vice chief never happened 10th April that Air Force said that you take 36 days leave or take any India specific addons lying that the whole Air Force is being destroyed in this deal see what has happened first of all they broke the work of Air Force Air Force said after working hard that we need at least 6 or 7 squadrons 126 aircraft we need at least Mr. Modi has done 2 places then he said and the Categorization Committee and the Acquisition Council all the people need to be aligned and because of this most of the air force will be in India you have blown it and our poor nation is looting the money which 36 aircraft should have come in 20,000 to 25,000 crores you have done 60,000 crores and 21,000 crores are making their cronies which will be made and above all they are insulting the Indian aeronautics and they are lying to the air force that is you have made the security of this country you have looted the treasure of this country you are ending the public sector making India self reliance and lying to the air force lying to the air force and all the secrets are being leaked don't consider this country so foolish don't consider the people so foolish they should understand there are still some people in this country at least some people in this country don't think that you have won the 2019 elections and the public sector is over that is why the government are not a secret the whole world knows what the India-specific enhancements are and in our whole country Indian Express gave a list of those India-specific enhancements so it's not a secret the government is telling us to believe that it's such a confidential information that it cannot be described the second is there has been no change in the India-specific enhancement during the India period they remain the same as fixed by the UVA it's the same India-specific enhancement and the other point which I would like to make an end is that I came across newspaper article written by one of the members of the council of ministers of his government and he said who is the uncle in this team who is the uncle because in the first place there was an uncle an Italian gentleman who is no more so he said who is the uncle in this team there is no need for an uncle because there is a nephew and the nephew is going to make out for him so that is the confused Ruben they get what they expect to get out of this team thank you and now questions