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The article also has Swamy's statement about Sonia's efforts to save Prabhakaran.



[url="http://expressbuzz.com/states/tamilnadu/JPC-on-2G-scam-will-trigger-PM?s-exit-Swamy/235083.html"]JPC on 2G scam will trigger PM’s exit: Swamy[/url]

CHENNAI: Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday said a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the multimillion 2G spectrum scam would not yield desired results. He favoured a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) investigation stating that a JPC probe would only lead to the ouster of the Prime Minister.



Speaking to reporters here on Tuesday, Swamy said if a JPC was constituted, it would have more members from the ruling Congress and the probe would not be fair. Moreover, it would lead to the ouster of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, only to be replaced by someone who is acceptable to party chief Sonia Gandhi.



Stating that he was for a PAC probe, Swamy claimed that BJP's Murli Manohar Joshi, who heads the PAC, is very knowledgeable.



The Janata Party chief wanted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to interrogate four prominent politicians and one former minister of State, who recently became a chief minister of a State, whose names figure in the diaries of A Raja.



The 2G spectrum issue was also a threat to national security. He said both the DMK and the Congress were "corrupt" and "antinational".



Swamy said he was happy that the Prime Minister had accepted his suggestion to write to the US government to release information on the money trail in the 2G spectrum scam, which caused a loss of `1.76 lakh crore to the exchequer.



Swamy alleged that DMK chief M Karunanidhi would not act against Raja, as "some of the politicians from the State were beneficiaries of the scam." They, he alleged, amassed money and moved it out of the country through illegal electronic financial transactions.



He said he had moved court to become the Public Prosecutor in a corruption case he had filed in connection with the 2G scam. It will decide on his plea on January 7.



Chidambaram's resignation sought



Swamy sought the resignation of home minister P Chidambaram, who, he alleged, wrote a letter to LTTE chief Prabhakaran towards the end of the Lankan civil war, asking him to give up arms "at the behest of Sonia Gandhi."



Chidambaram, he said, had committed an antinational act by writing to the leader of a banned organisation and action should be taken against him under the National Security Act (NSA).



He demanded a commission of inquiry to probe India's role in the 20082009 antiLTTE terrorist operations in Sri Lanka. He claimed that he had accessed information from very highlevel sources in India and abroad that a sixmember delegation was secretly sent to Colombo to prevail upon the Lankan President to save Prabhakaran from annihilation during the last four days of "antiterrorist" operations in May 2009.