Launching a fresh attack on the Narendra Modi Government over the Rafale fighter jet deal, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that money was stolen from the Indian exchequer.

Rahul's latest attack on Twitter followed a news report, which he tagged on his handle, that claimed that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) told the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) that details of the off-set deals would be shared by the makers of the Rafale — Dassault Aviation — three years after the deal.

Citing sources in the CAG office, the report claimed that information regarding offset contracts were not shared by MoD.

“Money was stolen from the Indian exchequer in Rafale. ‘Truth is one, paths are many,’ Mahatma Gandhi,” the Congress leader tweeted, quoting Mahatma Gandhi.

Of the 36 Rafale fighters that India had ordered, the first batch of five Rafale jets were received last month. The Modi government had signed a ?59,000-crore deal with Dassault in September 2016.

In the run up to the general elections last year, Rahul had made the deal his party’s main election plank and alleged financial irregularities and cronyism in the way Indian offset partners, especially Anil Ambani-headed Reliance Defence, were chosen. The government as well as Ambani's group strongly denied the allegations.

The former Congress chief has been attacking the Modi government on a plethora of issues - from its handling of the Covid pandemic to the face-off with China in Ladakh from the economic slowdown to the job crisis. The Congress is planning to corner the Government on all these issues in the upcoming monsoon session of the Parliament that is likely to commence from September 10.