Old scientists of DRDO and ADA always gives us jumla. It's my experience speaking, these old horses will disappear the moment the deadline comes. People at ADA has this habit of over inflating the progress and then hiding behind ADA walls when people question their progress. Anantha here was not scrutinizing their work, he is just setting up the things for Aero India. Nobody from ADA has ever explained delay due to too many iterations in MK1 LSPs, overweight, etc.He is not a politician to flaunt you with jumlas.
Even today, none of them are saying a thing about reduction in weight of MK1A.