The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday continued its tirade against “corruption” in the allotment of 2G spectrum by Communications Minister A. Raja, quoting the former Telecom Secretary, D.S. Mathur, who had reportedly alleged that the Minister had resisted a public auction of spectrum.
Presenting this as “clinching evidence” against Mr. Raja, BJP spokesman Prakash Javadekar objected to a reported meeting between Mr. Raja's counsel, the government's law officer and officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation looking into the allegations of corruption in spectrum allocation. Such a meeting was totally unethical and proof that a major cover-up was going on.
The party had pointed out that since some of those who had obtained licences had failed to start operations within the stipulated time, these should have been cancelled by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
Legal notice
Separately, the BJP got a legal notice issued to Congress spokesman Manish Tewari for “recklessly” and “with malice” claiming that BJP president Nitin Gadkari had obtained a ‘benami' flat (through a proxy) in the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society in Mumbai. The party had denied this.
On the issue of the former RSS chief, K.S. Sudarshan's libellous comments on Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Mr. Javadekar said since RSS general secretary had regretted the comments the Congress should have gracefully accepted this instead of continuing to hold “violent” protest demonstrations outside RSS offices.
