ALWAR: State labour minister Jaswant Singh Yadav has alleged that

’s attack on Prime Minister

over Rafale deal is a result of the former’s frustration over

not being able to acquire fighter jets.

“In the Rafale deal, fighter planes were acquired after great difficulty. Pakistan did not acquire it. Congress president Rahul Gandhi is disturbed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji and not Pakistan received it,” Yadav told reporters at a party function in Alwar, on Monday.

He had made similar charges while addressing a party event on Sunday. The minister had said that Gandhi is trying to please Pakistan by insulting everyone. “Rahul Gandhi called Hindus terrorists. What will he do after becoming a Prime Minister? He tells people of India that Hindus are terrorists. What does it mean? If you want to please Pakistan why are you insulting us?” Yadav had said.

“He calls Modi ji ‘chor’ when he himself comes from a family of thieves,” said Yadav, who also accused Congress of first misleading the SC/ST communities and now misleading the Brahmins and Baniya communities in the name of reservations.

Yadav’s remarks come at a time when the Congress is mounting attack on the Centre over the India-France Rafale deal and the selection of businessman Anil Ambani’s Reliance Defence Limited as an offset partner for France’s Dassault Aviation, instead of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).

Gandhi, time and again, has accused government of ousting HAL as Rafale’s offset partner and choosing Anil Ambani’s company to save its debt-ridden chairperson and his business.

In his recent campaign in poll-bound Rajasthan, the Congress president had also alleged that Prime Minister Modi has “become the ‘chowkidaar’ of Ambani, instead that of the nation.”