The Congress knocked at the door of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) for the second time in a fortnight on the Rafale scam on Thursday, this time to seek a forensic audit of every document related to the deal in the light of new “revelations”.

In particular, the Congress flagged the statement of former French President Francois Hollande that it was the Indian government that had proposed Anil Ambani’s Reliance as an offset partner for Dassault.

“This confirms what we have been saying from the beginning, that it was only the Prime Minister, he alone, who was privy to the fact that... the earlier agreement between the two governments was not going to be taken forward,’’ Congress leader Anand Sharma told the media after meeting the CAG.

In an interview to the French news website Mediapart on September 21, Hollande had said: “We didn’t have any say in this matter. It is the Indian government which had proposed this service group, and Dassault who negotiated with Ambani. We didn’t have the choice, we took the interlocutor who was given to us.’’

The Congress also sought to draw the CAG’s attention to the objections recorded by a senior defence ministry official on the benchmark price for the aircraft a month before the deal for the purchase of 36 Rafale aircraft was signed in September 2016.

Sharma said the CAG should conduct a “forensic audit” of all documents before finalising its report.

The Congress had earlier approached the CAG on September 19 to complain about irregularities in the Rafale deal.