The former Communication Minister, A. Raja, on Saturday said he would continue to press for an opportunity to appear before the Joint Parliamentary Committee to give his view on 2G spectrum allocation.
Talking to The Hindu, he said he was yet to receive any reply from Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar or JPC Chairman P.C. Chacko to his February 22 letter. He justified writing the letter to the Speaker as he was a sitting member of the Lok Sabha. Mr. Raja, DMK MP of the Nilgiris (Tamil Nadu), said in his letter that he was “willing and indeed anxious” to tell the JPC and through it, the nation, “the truth of the matter” which, he believed, was being “suppressed on [the] basis of pre-conceived notions, deliberate bias, faulty investigation and erroneous conclusions aided by media intent on sensationalism.”
JPC members belonging to the DMK and the CPI, and a few members of other parties too openly supported Mr. Raja and stressed that he be given an opportunity to explain his views.
Keywords: 2G case
I think that if the key player A.Raja is having enough rationale to
defend that he is indicted by concurrently exonerating all those who are
blameworthy, he will be warranted in using the preemptive right to
appear in person before JPC and put forth counters against all
accusations put forth by the then Attorney General G E Vahanvati. It is
to be noted that recently Vahanvati had told JPC that the contentious
press note vis-à-vis 2G licence was changed at the eleventh hour in 2008
with a different ink.
So far, two things are very apparent! ONE: Raja intends opening the Pandora's Box are far as the @G scandal is concerned. TWO: Regardless of their oft repeated public condemnation of the loss to the nation in the 2G scandal, on the quiet all political parties are one in their attitude towards guzzling of public money. Nothing else can explain the silence of the JPC on Raja's repeated requests.
What is stopping Raja in laying the complete truth in front of the people? By going public he will be doing a favour to the nation, save the cost of JPC and the political football being played with the issue.
JPC will put a gag order on publishing your side of the truth.
Come on Mr Raja, be truthful to yourself and the people who elected you. Damn the party which is not aiding you in anyway nor the UPA which allowed you to be roasted.
The Congress Party stands totally cornered.If it allows Raja to depose before the JPC,it will be exposed so completely that Sibal's New Accounting theories about converting loss into profit will take a Royal Beating.If Raja is precluded from appearing before the JPC,it will tacitly imply the same thing that the Congress is trying to hide viz.the roles of all those who have had a hand in the grand Loot,the
2G SCAM.
They put Raja in jail and now they won't let him talk to JPC.
Raja was elected in a democratic manner by his constituency and all those who voted for him are entitled to representation in the Parliament. With Raja in a status of unstable equilibrium, those voters have nobody sepeaking for them in the Lok Sabha. Chacko, Anthony , Ahmed Patel, et al should not be allowed to shield unique persons at the top of this scam by denying an M.P. from speaking with the JPC. Let the truth come out. Let the chips fall wherever they do. After all our motto is "Satyam eva Jayate". Restore some decency to DEMOCRACY!
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