By IANS,
New Delhi: The Congress Tuesday refused to comment on Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar returning the controversial report of the Murli Manohar Joshi-led Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on the 2G spectrum allocation.
“It is prerogative of the speaker. She has returned it. How can any party comment on it?” Congress general secretary Janardan Dwivedi told reporters here.
Sources in the PAC panel of parliament told IANS that Meira Kumar has returned the report to Joshi, the Bharatiya Janata Party veteran who heads the committee.
It had criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his “indirect” role in the telecom scam.
Joshi had gone ahead with the report and submitted it to the speaker’s office April 30 though a majority of the panel members had rejected it.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal had then said that Joshi had not submitted the PAC report to the speaker as it had not been approved at the meeting of the committee.
The draft report was rejected by 11 of the PAC’s 21 members, including those from the Congress, the DMK, the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party.
Joshi, while submitting the report to Meira Kumar’s office, had hoped “that the speaker will accept it and place it in parliament”.
He had said the action of the 11 members in rejecting the report after he had “adjourned” the PAC meeting was “unconstitutional”.