One more UPA defence deal on BJP’s radar

This is the second deal concluded during the previous UPA regime, which has come under clouds. The AgustaWestland deal overshadowed the recently-concluded Budget Session of Parliament. 

As the issue of procurement of fleet tanker ships for the Indian Navy hots up, BJP Lok Sabha MP Kirit Somaiya said he would knock the doors of Public Accounts Committee of the House to raise the issue since it was the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, who for the first time, had flagged the matter of handing over undue favour to a foreign vendor (Fincantieri, Italy) in procurement of fleet tankers.