Picking Reliance as Rafale partner was must: Dassault document
According to a document accessed by French journal 'Mediapart', Dassault Aviation entered into an agreement with Anil Ambani's Reliance Defence as it was presented as a trade-off to obtain the contract of Rafale sales. Dassault considered the alliance as "mandatory" to get into the Indian market, the report added. This comes ahead of Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's visit to France. 