New Delhi: As the deadlock in Parliament continues, Joint Parliamentary Committee Chairperson PC Chacko has said that the government is not stubborn, but too soft on the Opposition. He said that the date for the meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee meeting on the 2G scam will be decided on Monday.
Speaking to CNN-IBN, Chacko also said there is no provision to remove the JPC Chairman. This came as Opposition members in the JPC submitted a memorandum to the Speaker demanding that Chacko be sacked as the JPC Chairman.
Earlier, PC Chacko had hit out at the Opposition for asking the Speaker to sack him. Speaking to CNN-IBN, he had charged them with playing a political game by going to the Speaker with their demand rather than asking him for his resignation.
"If they had demanded me that I resign, I would have considered that. Now they have asked the Speaker to remove me. I have not seen any rules by which anybody can remove the Chairman of a committee. They are playing a political game, I am hundred per cent sure," Chacko had said....
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11:29 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: The Joint Parliamentary Committee meeting on the 2G scam that was scheduled for Thursday has been postponed. JPC Chairperson PC Chacko said that the next date of the meeting will be finalised after consulting other members. The meeting is likely to take place next week, Chacko said. This came after the Lok Sabha was adjourned following a request from MPs to mourn the death of Trinamool Lok Sabha...
11:58 AM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) meeting, which will be held in the national capital on Thursday to adopt the draft report on 2G spectrum allocation scam, is expected to be a stormy affair with the Opposition planning to corner the panel's chairperson PC Chacko over clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram. Sources said the Opposition might also force a vote on the...
08:39 AM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: The Bharatiya janata Party (BJP) is ready to send a questionnaire to Prime Minister on the 2G scam instead of demanding his personal appearance before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), according to sources. At least five meetings are needed to exhaust the list of witnesses that include Attorney General G Vahanvati. This comes on a day when the BJP ended its boycott of the JPC meet. BJP members...
03:35 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: After abstaining twice including a much hyped walkout, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will attend the Joint Parliamentary Committee meeting on the 2G probe on Thursday. The BJP, which has six members on the panel, had stayed away from the last two meetings demanding that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram be asked to depose before the panel. The BJP is likely to keep up...
11:48 AM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: After the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) boycotted the Joint Parliamentary Committee meet on the 2G Scam, the Left Front leaders also walked out of the meeting on Thursday. CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta walked out of the meeting demanding that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram depose as witnesses in the case. The Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party have also supported the Left leaders'...
01:53 PM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: BJP is likely to boycott the proceedings of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Thursday on 2G over the issue of calling Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram as witnesses. "We will continue to boycott the proceedings of the JPC," BJP MP and a member of the panel said. Expressing similar sentiments, another BJP member said there is no relevance in attending the meeting where former...
12:41 AM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: Five Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members walked out of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) meeting on the 2G spectrum scam on Tuesday after their demand for a list of witnesses to be called was rejected. Congress leader PC Chacko said no witnesses would be called, following which the BJP members walked out. BJP leader Yashwant Sinha had written a letter to Chacko demanding a list of witnesses be...
12:09 PM, Sep 18, 2012
