2 G scam : Three musketeers : Raja, Momohan, Chidambaram : Whose hand ??

2G scam: 
Raja names PM, Chidamabaram in Court
Source: Agencies   |   Last Updated 18:20(25/07/11) || Daily Bhaskar.

New Delhi: Former telecom minister A. Raja on Monday sought to drag Prime Minister Manmohan Singh into the 2G spectrum case, prompting the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to seek his and Home Minister P Chidambaram's resignation and the Congress joining the war of words.

Appearing before the special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) presided over by Judge OP Saini, Raja's lawyer said 2G spectrum transactions were approved by then finance minister P Chidambaram in the presence of the prime minister.

"Telenor buying a stake in Unitech Wireless and Etisalat buying a stake in DB Realty -- the finance minister approved it in the presence of the prime minister," Raja's counsel Sushil Kumar told the court. 

"Let the PM deny it," the counsel told the judge, referring to the particular time in 2007-08 when Chidambaram was finance minister. "If policies pursued by me were wrong, then all former telecom ministers since 1993 should also be in jail with me," he added.

"As telecom minster Arun Shourie distributed 26 licences, Dayanidhi Maran distributed 25 and I distributed 122. Numbers make no difference. It is to be noted that that none of them auctioned the spectrum. If they had done no wrong, why am I being questioned?"

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Kapil Sibal defends that P Chidambaram had no role in 2G.

2G scam: Kapil Sibal defends P Chidambaram, says he had no role.

PTI / Friday, July 8, 2011 18:48 IST /eDNA.

Coming to the defence of home minister P Chidambaram, the government today insisted that the former telecom minister had "no role anywhere" in the second-generation (2G) mobile telephony spectrum allocation controversy and demands for his resignation were a "conspiracy" against him.

The government also justified the fact that minutes of a meeting between Chidambaram and the then telecom minister A Raja had not been recorded, saying it was not required."The demand for Chidambaram's resignation is a conspiracy. Chidambaram had no role anywhere. Whatever and whenever decisions he took, he did so after consultations," telecom minister Kapil Sibal told reporters in Delhi.He was responding when asked BJP's contention that Chidambaram had a role in the 2G spectrum allocation and should resign.Parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, who was also present, claimed that Chidambaram had never recommended to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that start-up spectrum should be treated as a 'closed chapter" and there was some confusion regarding it."His comments were about additional spectrum charges," he maintained.On the minutes of meeting between Chidambaram and Raja not being recorded, Bansal argued, "The meeting was not such where the situation warranted preparation of any minutes... The meeting was not required to record minutes."He said it was not a structured meeting like a cabinet meeting or GoM where the minutes are prepared immediately after. "There are several occasions where two ministers meet even to discuss a specific issue but minutes are not made."

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