The World - News from April 21, 1987
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, hotly defending his government’s honesty, challenged opponents to produce evidence of wrongdoing in a $1.3 billion Indian arms deal with the Swedish firm Bofors. The charges followed the resignation more than a week ago of Defense Minister V. P. Singh, who quit after ordering an investigation of payoffs in another defense deal. “We have been assured by the Swedish government and the company that there have been no payoffs,” Gandhi told an unruly session of the lower house of Parliament.
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