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Aurangabad: The Congress on Monday made it clear that the alleged scam of the Rafale deal will be a major issue during the campaign for general elections, 2019. “We do not seek that the prime minister and defence minister declare the technical details. It also bagged the Rs 1 lakh crore “life cycle contract”.Modhwadia said the Congress has already started reaching out to people so there is greater awareness of this scam. “We intend to highlight failures of the government in many other spheres,” he said, asserting that the party was not worried about legal notices to leaders for raising the Rafale scandal. The remaining 108 aircraft were to be made in India by HAL, and a transfer of technology clause too was part of the agreement.The Modi government reviewed the deal in 2015, announced emergency off-the-shelf purchase of 36 Rafale aircraft in Paris for Rs 1670.70 crore per aircraft..