New Delhi: The grand old Congress party on Wednesday demanded answers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar's alleged claim that he had files on Rafale "lying in his bedroom" and questioned if this was the cause why a joint parliamentary committee investigation was not being ordered.

 Worth mention here on the second day of Year 2019 ahead of the debate on the matter in Lok Sabha, where Rahul Gandhi spearhead the party’s attack, the Congress released an audio tape of Goa’s health minister Vishwajit Pratapsingh Rane, in which he supposedly made the sensational claim about Parrikar holding on to the files.

It is noted that Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala appeared with a conversation purportedly between Goa minister Vishwajit Rane and another person ‘X’.

In the released video Rane purportedly can be heard  asserting that during a Goa cabinet meeting last week, Parrikar said he had an entire file and all documents  with respect to the Rafale deal lying in the bedroom of his flat and no one could take out him. Surjewala played this alleged conversation for the media outside  the Parliament.

He quoted Rane as asserting, "The chief minister made a very interesting statement, that I have all the information of Rafale in my bedroom....that's means he is holding them to ransom. He said it is in my bedroom here only in my flat, each and every document on Rafale."

 For those who don’t know the Congress has been alleging for some time now that Parrikar is not being removed as Goa CM in spite of his ill health as he has some incriminating documents on the Rafale pact