Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed happiness over the acquittal of former IT Minister A. Raja, saying, “You stand vindicated in the 2G case.”
“You and your family have suffered greatly in this process, but all your friends are greatly relieved that truth has prevailed. I send you and members of your family my greetings and best wishes for the New Year,” said Dr. Singh in a letter to Mr. Raja written on January 2.
It was a response to an earlier letter that Mr. Raja had written to Dr. Singh in late December, asking him if he would come out in his support at least now. “Now that the truth about 2G is out in the open, perhaps you, too, could come forward in my support, which you could not earlier,” Mr. Raja had said in his letter on December 26, last year.
Recalling the letter he wrote to Dr. Singh “a decade ago on this day on the subject of issuance of new Unified Access Service (UAS) licences and allocation of 2G spectrum,” Mr. Raja said, “neither of us could have imagined the twists and turns in our political and personal lives in the next ten years.”
False propaganda
Mr. Raja alleged that powerful individuals had launched a false propaganda, which a pliable media magnified a thousand times, and succeeded in misleading even Parliament and the judiciary. “It cost you the UPA government, and it took seven years of my life, including fifteen months in jail,” his letter said.
Mr. Raja also recalled in his letter his assurance to Dr. Singh that he had done nothing wrong, that he had only acted in the national interest, and would eventually prove that.
“I also understand the compulsions that prevented you from openly supporting me. Today I stand vindicated. I hope you will acknowledge that I remained loyal and faithful to you — unlike some senior Congress colleagues — and ensured that you did not suffer personal embarrassment in the trial proceedings,” his letter said.
