CONTROVERSY REIGNITED

A report by The Hindu said a defence ministry bureaucrat raised concerns over “parallel parleys” with French side by PMO officials Congress president Defence minister Rahul Gandhi said Nirmala Sitharaman said the report made that the portion of the “absolutely black and note published showed white that the Prime only half the truth Minister himself was because a handwritten carrying out a parallel reply by then defence negotiation with the minister Manohar Parrikar

French” was not reported

In his file noting, Parrikar wrote:

“It appears that PMO and French president’s office are monitoring the progress of the issue which was an outcome of the summit meeting.”

He said the last paragraph, which suggested a “revised modality of negotiations to be led by PMO” appeared to be an overreaction and suggested the defence secy resolve the issue with the private secy to the PM