Hollande’s Rafale Revelations: Indian Government's Game Plan Backfired

Defence analyst D Raghunandan tells Newsclick editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha that there was no way a company of Dassault’s scale and prestige would have chosen Anil Ambani’s Reliance, a new entrant into defence at the time, without the Indian government playing a role.
Interview with D Raghunandan
Interviewed by Prabir Purkayastha

Defence analyst D Raghunandan tells Newsclick editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha that there was no way a company of Dassault’s scale and prestige would have chosen Anil Ambani’s Reliance, a new entrant into defence at the time, without the Indian government playing a role.