Agusta deal: Rajya Sabha adjourned after TMC gives notice over scam

Manohar Parrikar will place VVIP chopper deal facts in Parliament on May 4.

As the stormy session at the Parliament continued on Monday, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress moved a motion to discuss the controversial AgustaWestland helicopter deal in the Rajya Sabha.

Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday gave a notice in the House for suspension of all business to pave way for immediate discussion on the alleged AgustaWestland chopper scam.

Read: Identify middlemen in VVIP copter deal

Earlier, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had questioned the silence of the TMC and the CPI (M) over the VVIP chopper deal.

Meanwhile, Defence Minister Ma nohar Parrikar has said he will place all facts along with the detailed chronology about the controversial chopper deal before Parliament on May 4.

"I will place the detailed chronology with documents giving facts about AgustaWestland chopper deal before Parliament on May 4," he said in Panaji. Read: UPA must answer who received kickbacks in Agusta deal: Parrikar AgustaWestland's Rs 3,600 crore contract for supplying 12 VVIP choppers to the Indian Air Force had been scrapped by the previous UPA regime over charges of paying kickbacks to Indian agents.

In January 2013, the Manmohan Singh-led UPA Government cancelled the deal and the CBI was assigned to investigate whether kickbacks were paid to Indian officials.