India's former defense minister and serving chief minister of the western s...
FILE PHOTO: India's Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar attends a seminar during the Vibrant Gujarat investor summit in Gandhinagar, India, January 12, 2017. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File Photo
A technocrat turned politician, 63-year-old Parrikar was a senior member of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party . He had been suffering from cancer. The deal has been the center of allegations from India’s main opposition party, Congress, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government paid too much and that it forced Dassault to accept Indian businessman Anil Ambani’s Reliance Defence as its Indian partner even though the company had no such prior experience in defense contracting.
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