By IANS,
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday accused the Congress of trying to stall the Public Accounts Committee’s report on the 2G spectrum scam as it may “touch very senior people in the government”.
“The Congress party is reluctant to have a fair examination by the PAC because any fair examination is likely to touch very senior people in the government,” BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters.
Senior BJP leader and PAC chairman Murli Manohar Joshi came under attack after 11 PAC members from the Congress, DMK, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party rejected an interim report on 2G scam and demanded Joshi’s resignation.
Joshi walked out of the meeting but the remaining members appointed Saifuddin Soz to preside over the meeting and moved a resolution to reject the report.
“It’s a consulted, deliberate and sponsored attempt to stall the probe,” Prasad said.
“There is a design behind the act, to forestall the completion of the PAC report at any cost as the probe for the 2G spectrum (scam) reached the upper section, whether it is the PMO, or the finance minister’s role, or the attorney general’s role,” Prasad said.
“Today, the BJP would like to ask the Congress that when the prime minister described Mr. Joshi as an able parliamentarian capable of functioning well as a PAC chairman, before whom he is offering voluntarily to appear how he has become a villain,” he asked.
The draft 270-page report, which was circulated among members Wednesday, has criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for giving an “indirect green signal” to former IT and communications minister A. Raja to execute his “unfair and dubious designs” in selling scarce radio waves at throwaway prices.