By IANS,
New Delhi: The Congress Saturday dared the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to have a vote on the Public Account Committee’s (PAC) report on the 2G spectrum scam, saying that the panel chairman and BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi did not allow a formal vote to be recorded.
“Please have the vote tomorrow (Sunday) if Murli Manohar Joshi is ready and the BJP is ready,” Congress spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said here.
Singhvi said that Joshi did not allow a formal vote to be recorded at the controversial meeting of the PAC Thursday despite the Congress and the DMK members pressing for it.
He said DMK leader and former telecommunications minister A. Raja was not summoned by the PAC.
The Congress spokesperson also raised questions over the manner in which the PAC’s findings were leaked.
Joshi earlier in the day submitted the committee’s report on the 2G spectrum allocation to the office of Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and termed the report’s rejection by 11 members, mostly from the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA), as “unconstitutional”.
Singhvi said it was for the speaker to decide as a majority of members have rejected the draft report.
A Congress leader said on the condition of anonymity that the party was likely to voice its opposition to renomination of Joshi as PAC chairperson.
He said that the BJP had again proposed Joshi’s name for the post of PAC chairperson and the Congress was likely to voice its opposition. He said it might not be easy for Joshi to function as chairperson of the PAC and it would be better if the BJP put up another name.
He added that it was for the Lok Sabha speaker to take a final decision on the chairman of the PAC.