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PM knew it all, says Raja

July 27, 2011 12:50:00 AM

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Sana Shakil | New Delhi

Ex-Telecom Minister tells court to make PC a witness



For the second day in a row, former Telecom Minister A Raja attacked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the alleged irregularities in allotment of 2G spectrum, and pressed before a special CBI court that the then Finance Minister P Chidambaram be made a witness in the case.



Even before the UPA Government could recover from Raja’s bombshell on Monday that PM and Chidambaram consented to equity dilution in Swan Telecom and Unitech, the DMK leader fired another salvo at the PM on Tuesday.



Targetting the PM, Raja said, “The Prime Minister was definitely superior to me, he had the power to constitute the GoM, but he never felt the need to do it. Just because the Prime Minister ignored it, no GoM (Group of Ministers) was constituted. By that standard, the Prime Minister was also in conspiracy so far as dereliction of duty is concerned. It was his PM’s judgment that GoM was not required.



Though the Congress has staunchly defended the PM and Law Minister Salman Khurshid dismissed Raja’s charges as baseless, the facts remains that Raja has inflicted serious damage to the image of the PM.



The BJP, which has been all along critical of the PM’s role in the letting the scam take place, has already demanded the resignation of Manmohan Singh and Chidambaram.



Training his guns on Chidambaram, Raja said the Home Minister must come to court as witness in the case since the decisions about spectrum allotment equity dilution were known to him.