New Delhi: Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman has accused the Congress of looking for a scam every day to throw mud on the "corruption-free" NDA government.

BJP did not throw tantrums during Congress-led UPAgovernment over any defence deals as the Congress was doing at present over the deal for purchase of Rafale fighter jets, she said at a media event in Bengaluru.

"The Congress wants to equate their corrupt and scam-hit UPA government with ours. So, it is looking for a scam every day. Here we go there is one, pick it up and throw mud, and it is for us to keep wiping it and saying we are clean. I am sorry it is somewhat not so responsible way in which you want to criticise the government," she said.

Stating that she had 'happily released all the answers on purchase of equipment, weaponry and certain helicopters," she said when some helicopters were deployed in friendly countries during UPA regime, then ministers did not disclose information citing national security concerns.

There was no outrage at that time, in spite of BJP being the opposition. "We didn't throw tantrums. We then thought there would have been some reason, the government, the defence ministry and the PM, probably had a genuine reason not to talk about it," she added.

Sitharaman also said there was no controversy over the Rafale deal as there was no deal under the UPA government. "Let's get this out of our system that they (UPA government) had the deal and it was much better. Where was the deal under the UPA? There was just no deal..."

She was responding to Congress President Rahul Gandhi's allegations that the Rafale deal inked by the government to buy 38 fighter planes had no technology transfer, ignoring the deal signed by UPA government to procure 126 Rafale planes.

The defence minister said Rafale had been considered along with Eurofighter Typhoon under the UPA regime and there was enough data in public domain where within three years between 2011 to early 2014, the UPA's quoted prices about Rafale had undergone nearly 300 per cent increase. She said the process was almost completed and the bids were opened and at the stage of buying, the then "RakshaMantri thought probably there was something wrong and asked for the details."