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BJP asks
PM - Did you agree to 2G allocation without auction?
Friday November 12, 2010 05:38:01 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Accusing
the Congress of abject surrender before partner DMK for survival
in office, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday asked Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh if his office had given assent to the 2G
spectrum allotment without auction as suggested by Telecom
Minister A.Raja.
BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar demanded the immediate sacking
of Raja and said the government's affidavit to the Supreme Court
on the 2G spectrum allotment was a testimony to the "abject
surrender of the Congress before the DMK for survival in office".
"The paralysis on the part of the prime minister to take action
against Raja on the worst scam in India proves that he was a
partner in the decision," Javadekar told reporters.
Posing questions to the prime minister, Javadekar said he must
answer if the decision to allot 2G spectrum without auction was
taken by the department of telecommunications or the cabinet.
"Is it not a fact that the prime minister was fully informed about
the TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) position on the
issue and TRAI had never recommended 2G spectrum allotment without
auction?" Javadekar said.
"If 2G allotment without auction was right mode of allotment, then
why 3G spectrum was alloted through auction?"
According to Javadekar, Raja had repeatedly said he had sought
guidance from the prime minister at every stage.
"This casts heavy responsibility on the PM to clarify whether he
has personally approved the procedure which Raja adopted. PM's
silence on the issue is eloquent... The shameful justification of
corruption in 2G spectrum allotment is proof of the complete
paralysis that has set in in the government," Javadekar said.
The BJP spokesman said that the government was trying to defend
the indefensible.
He said the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government had
decided in 2003 through a cabinet decision that spectrum
allocation in future will be done only through auction.
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report has estimated the
loss to the nation to be over Rs.170,000 crore.
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