Congress president Rahul Gandhi will take part in a discussion on Hindustan Aeronautics Limited's contribution to the country on October 13, but a mega protest meet against the Rafale fighter jet deal has been postponed, state Congress said Thursday.
Congress' Karnataka chief Dinesh Gundu Rao said the protest meet has been postponed and would be organised on a later day in the city.
"Rahul Gandhi is coming day after tomorrow (Saturday, October 13), earlier we had planned to organise a huge protest meet by gathering about a lakh people against the Rafale deal scandal and preparations were on for it...but we are not doing it as he has other commitments," Gundu Rao said.
Rao, however, said Gandhi would be participating in a discussion about HAL's contribution to the country.
He said this discussion was not being organised by the congress party, but by "some people" who are "pained" by the government's attempts to "ruin HAL's name."
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