Murlimanohar Joshi Attempts to Re-submit Rejected 2G Report
posted on Jun 28, 2011 @ 6:03PM
The Congress and its allies foiled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Murli Manohar Joshi's attempt to table before the reconstituted Public Accounts Committee (PAC) the rejected report of the previous panel that had hinted at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P. Chidambaram's role in the alleged 2G scam.
Murlimanohar Joshi, who heads the panel that oversees the government's spending, tried to table the report at a meeting of the new committee but the Congress members, led by Jayanti Natarajan, opposed this on the ground that a report that had been rejected would have to be redrafted before it could be presented again, sources said. The Congress members of the newly-formed panel were also arguing that the 2G scam was already being probed by a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) and there was no need for the PAC to get into it.
The report was sharply critical of Manmohan Singh and Chidambaram, who was the finance minister in 2007-08 when alleged irregularities were commited in allotting licenses to use scarce radio waves for high-end mobile phone services.