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PM ready for reply on coal blocks: Congress
Wednesday August 22, 2012 11:45:16 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) insisting on his resignation
over faulty coal blocks allocation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
is ready to make a strong rebuttal of the charges, Congress
sources said Wednesday.
They said the prime minister would seek to turn the tables on the
opposition in his statement by pointing out that state governments
of non-United Progressive Alliance constituents had given in
writing that there should not be an auction of the coal blocks.
"The prime minister is ready with a reply," a party leader said.
There was a feeling in the Congress that the BJP was deliberately
stalling parliament so as to prevent the prime minister from
speaking on the issue.
The Congress has already rejected the BJP demand for the prime
minister's resignation.
The house was adjourned for the second successive day Wednesday
over Comptroller and Auditor General report on coal blocks
allocation.
Congress sources said the prime minister was likely to point out
in his statement that the assessment of a loss of Rs.1.85 lakh
crore by the CAG in the coal blocks allocation was misleading.
They said that governments of Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Jharkhand
and Rajasthan (under the rule of the BJP and it allies) and West
Bengal (during the Left Front rule) had given in writing that
there should not be an auction of the coal blocks.
Referring to the 2006-09 period when the coal portfolio was with
the prime minister, Congress sources said that the CAG report had
mentioned about 57 blocks but production had started in only one
of them.
They said that the prime minister was also expected to negate the
CAG contention that there was a delay about the law concerning
auctions.
The sources said the prime minister was likely to point out that
even normal legislative enactment took time because of
inter-ministerial consultations and the framing of detailed
guidelines.
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