Thread by @RenukaJain6

Reliance Defence denied receiving any contract from the Defence Ministry and said "unfounded and incorrect" allegations are being deliberately made to "mislead people and cloud the issue.

2 Reliance Defence or any other Reliance group company has not received any contract from the MoD till date, related to 36 Rafale aircraft. This is absolutely unfounded and incorrect," he told over phone.

3 "As per Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP), the Ministry of Defence has no role in the selection of Indian partners by the foreign vendors. This has been the position right from 2005 when offset”. Reliance group

4 In the more than 50 offset (export obligations) contracts signed in the country till date, the same process has been followed, he said. "Therefore, this is a deliberate attempt to mislead people and cloud the issue."

5 Reliance will be participating in the offset program through Dassault Reliance Aerospace Ltd (DRAL) in which Dassault holds a 49 per cent stake bringing in its 90 years of aerospace manufacturing experience, making it the "most qualified vendor"

6 allegation of Reliance benefiting with a Rs 30,000 crore contract was "absolutely wrong" , saying "Dassault's share of offsets is about 25 per cent, with the remaining offset obligations being shared by Thales, Safran, MBDA and others."

7 Therefore, basic premise of Dassault giving Rs 30,000 cr worth of offset contracts to Reliance is totally unfounded," “Dassault already indicated more than 100 Indian companies which will participate in the offset contracts.This includes joint ventures with PSUs like HAL & BEL

8 "Also there are reports in the media of as late as end-March 2015 where Dassault officials were on record to say that the MMRCA deal is 95 per cent done. If this is correct, what is the linkage with the date of incorporation of Reliance Defence??”

9 PM He was in Paris because there was a meeting of the CEOs' Forum on the sidelines of the Prime Minister's visit. More than 25 other CEOs from the Indian companies were also present, including the Chairman of HAL

It wasn’t only Ambani Present at time of deal

10. "There cannot be anything further from truth... To the best of my knowledge, the government has not signed any lifecycle contract for 50 years with Dassault. Therefore, the very question of Reliance getting a contract does not arise”

11. On the issue of Nirmala Sitharaman denying knowledge of contract, as per DPP 2016, the foreign vendor has a choice to submit the details of its offset partners at the time of claiming offset credits.

In this case, offset obligations are due only after September 2019.

12 The offset contract is signed between the MoD and the foreign vendor. MoD does not sign any contract with the Indian offset partners."

So no question of DPP a joint secretary-level official is required to countersign the contrac