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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | CAG to depose before PAC on 2G report today

CAG to depose before PAC on 2G report today

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published Published on Dec 26, 2010   modified Modified on Dec 26, 2010

Amidst a high-pitched BJP campaign for a JPC probe into the 2G spectrum allocation scam, Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai is all set to appear before Public Accounts Committee (PAC). PAC is scrutinising the sensational CAG report, claiming massive irregularities in the telecom deal. Rai, according to sources, will depose before the PAC on Monday.

Interestingly, PAC chairman Murli Manohar Joshi, a senior BJP leader, has started going about his job to examine the CAG report about alleged corruption in the allocation of spectrum despite his party's rejection of a PAC scrutiny that it has dubbed `inadequate'.

PAC has already begun its work, critically looking at different aspects of the CAG report that has quoted the mind-boggling sum of Rs 1,76,000 crore as the amount of loss to the exchequer incurred due to the wayward handling of spectrum distribution among various telecom players.

The government has turned down the demand for a JPC, insisting that it is not in a position to investigate the criminal aspects of the deal, which the CBI is better equipped to do. The Congress has gone a step further, calling the JPC demand as a ploy to politicise the probe.

Already Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has announced his willingness to appear before the PAC to explain his position on the whole issue. "I have nothing to hide," he said while speaking at the Congress plenary session, which was held in the Capital last week.

Rai will be the first major figure to face the PAC in connection with the telecom scam. If the proceedings of the PAC probe gain momentum, it will come as a setback for the BJP's meticulous build-up for a sustained campaign against corruption in high places.

Sources said, some of the PAC members are asking for the scrutiny to begin from 2001. This is exactly what the Congress had demanded during the Parliament logjam to prove that the previous NDA government had been equally responsible for the alleged irregularities.


The Times of India, 27 December, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/CAG-to-depose-before-PAC-on-2G-report-today/articleshow/7169001.cms


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