NEW DELHI: The opposition National Front Thursday said that the ruling Congress(1) party was denigrating the country’s institutions to protect one individual’s.
Commenting on the Congress (D) reaction to the latest reports on Bofors gun deal in the media. The Front spokesperson Dinesh Gosawami said the ruling party was “now trying to cover-up the cover-up”.
The latest report on the 1.3 billion dollar field gun deal by the Hindu’s N. Rum and Chitra Sub Tamaniam said the “needle of suspicion” in this murky affair pointed to the premier Rajiy Gandhi himself. The
Swedish armament company, Bofors, is charged with having paid Indian middlemen 40 million dollars in bribes for having helped clinched the deal.
Goswami said the Congress (1) spokesman Anand Sharma had failed to make a case of forgery (of the documents published in some mews papers).
The National Front leader claimed that the published diary of the company’s director Ardbo which mentions a “Gandhi trust lawyer” was brought out by a Pakistani bussidiary of the Nobel industries, Nobel, of which Bofors is a part.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 10, 1989
