Government to probe ex-BJP minister's link with Radia
Monday December 27, 2010 05:31:11 PM,
IANS
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Chennai:
The central government will investigate whether any official
information was leaked to corporate lobbyist Niira Radia by
Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Ananth Kumar when he was
the civil aviation minister in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)
government, a minister said here Monday.
"The revelation that Radia is close to Kumar is a slap on the
BJP's face. The government will investigate whether any official
decision were passed on to Radia by Kumar," Minister of State of
Culture, Planning and Parliamentary Affairs V. Narayanasamy said,
"The sharing of official information to Radia is an anti-national
act," Narayanasamy told reporters here.
Radia's former business partner Rao Dheeraj Singh in an interview
to a television channel last week alleged that Kumar and Radia
were known to each other well.
Narayanasamy said Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has called a
meeting of all parties' leaders in New Delhi Dec 30 and 31 to sort
out the logjam in the conduct of parliament.
He described the stalling of parliament proceedings for 22 days by
the opposition parties in general, more particularly the BJP, as
"anti-democratic". It cost the nation around Rs.33 crore, he said.
"Many of the parties demanding a joint parliamentary committee (JPC)
probe into the 2G spectrum scam may not be able to have their
members in it. A party should have at least 17 members in
parliament to be included in the JPC," he said.
"The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has sufficient powers to look
into the issue of spectrum allotment and the loss incurred to the
government from it. The PAC is looking into the issue for the past
eight months," Narayanasamy said.
Asked why was the Congress party reluctant for a JPC probe into
the Rs.1.76 trillion scam, Narayanasamy said: "Going by the past
experience, the JPC probe is ineffective."
He pointed out that the JPCs that probed the Bofors gun deal, the
two securities-stock market scams and the row over pesticides in
colas did not come out with any great findings.
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