Congress dares Indian government to come out with truth on AgustaWestland deal

New Delhi: Congress on Friday dared government to come out with the truth on AgustaWestland deal in next two months instead of issuing threats and launching a "malicious" campaign against it .
"If government has the guts, it should come out with truth in the matter in the next two months when Monsoon session of Parliament will commence", Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad told reporters here.
Making light of the attacks on the party and its leadership, he posed the question whether the Congress and the United Progressive Alliance(UPA) and their leadership would have taken several steps to unravel the truth in the matter if they had something to hide or if they had resorted to corruption.
Taking a dig at the prime minister and the government, he alleged that the entire government has been tasked to target the Congress and its leadership day in and day out on the issue.
"It is all disinformation, a malicious campaign". "They have the entire government with them, the CBI, RAW and Ed...Why they are not finding out as to who is guilty, who has taken money", Azad said.
He ignored threat of BJP member Subramanian Swamy to move a Breach of Privilege against him for his remarks that UPA had blacklisted Finmeccanica. He said generally breach of privilige is moved against ministers if they mislead despite having all the information.
Asked whether Congress was ready to have a discussion in Parliament on the issue, he said, "we are ready for any discussion. We have nothing to hide. We are demanding an early decision by government" to find out the truth.
Dismissing BJP's charge that the Congress had compromised national security in the chopper deal, he said that the national security had got compromised when in the Vajpayee government, the then external affairs minister had accompanied dreaded terrorists to Kandahar.
"National Security gets compromised when we see defence files are selectively leaked to TV channels", he said in an apparent jibe at the Modi dispensation.
Party spokesman R. P. N. Singh accused the Defence Ministry of coming out with "half truths" in its clarification on the deal on Thursday. Hitting out at the BJP, Azad said, "Those who stay inglass houses, do not throw stones". "The less he speaks, it will be better", he said in a dismissive tone when told that BJP chief Amit Shah has come out with fresh questions for the Congress leadership. He claimed that the campaign against the Congress was aimed at diverting people's attention from the "failure" of the government to deliver. "They had promised the moon, but (what people got) was drought and water scarcity".