Industrialist Anil Ambani had rejected allegations that his Reliance Group lacked adequate experience to get the Rafale fighter jet deal while also maintaining that the Centre had no role in French Group Dassault picking up his company as a local partner. Anil Ambani had said this in a two-page letter addressed to Congress president Rahul Gandhi nearly eight months back in which also sought to explain why his group bagged the multi-billion dollar project. In the letter, written on December 12, 2017, Ambani also invoked his family's "respectful relationship" with the Gandhi family over generations and said that he was "personally saddened" by the "unfortunate statements" against him and his group by several functionaries of the Congress party.

Industrialist Anil Ambani had rejected allegations that his Reliance Group lacked adequate experience to get the Rafale fighter jet deal while also maintaining that the Centre had no role in French Group Dassault picking up his company as a local partner. Anil Ambani had said this in a two-page letter addressed to Congress president Rahul Gandhi nearly eight months back in which also sought to explain why his group bagged the multi-billion dollar project. In the letter, written on December 12, 2017, Ambani also invoked his family's "respectful relationship" with the Gandhi family over generations and said that he was "personally saddened" by the "unfortunate statements" against him and his group by several functionaries of the Congress party.