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After PM’s clean chit, who am I to question Raja: Amar Singh

Amar Singh

NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh seeks no point in raking up corruption charges against Union Telecom Minister A. Raja in the 2G-spectrum scam after the Prime Minister has given him a clean chit.

[After] “Raja’s claim that Manmohan Singh was informed of the issue [of allocation of 2G spectrum] and the subsequent certificate given by the Prime Minister to Raja, who am I to question that?”

Mr Singh was responding to questions here on Monday about the controversy surrounding the 2G-spectrum allocation. At the same time, he said, the entire Cabinet had to take responsibility. “The decisions of the Cabinet are guided by the principle of collective responsibility. If there is corruption, it is collective; if there is no corruption, it is collective. Both credit and discredit are collective.”

To a question on Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi’s decision to campaign for the party candidate Raj Babbar in the Ferozabad by-election in Uttar Pradesh, Mr. Singh said he had no “bitterness” about it. At the same time, he pointed out that his party had not put up a candidate nor did it campaign against the Congress in the Lok Sabha elections in Amethi (Rahul’s constituency) and in Rae Bareli (Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s constituency).

He made it clear that he would have expected the same courtesy from the Congress to Mulayam Singh’s daughter-in-law, Dimple, who is contesting the by-election, which is caused by her husband Akhilesh, vacating the Ferozabad seat.

Mr. Singh welcomed the decision by Ajit Singh’s Rashtriya Lok Dal to join hands with the SP for the by-election. “The friendship will continue beyond the poll,” he said. Mr. Singh levelled charges of “nepotism and irregularities” against Chief Minister Mayawati in recent appointments to the Greater Noida Authority. According to him, relatives of and party personnel close to her were appointed “without norms being followed.”

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