Chandigarh: With BJP dubbing the draft JPC report on 2G spectrum scam as a "cover-up" attempt to save the government, Union Minister Manish Tewari on Saturday said the party is unnecessarily raking up the issue as a debate could be held on the report when it is presented in Parliament.
"The draft JPC report has been sent to members. Thereafter, the JPC will have a meeting and members can place their views in that meeting. Then the report will be adopted and it will be presented in Parliament. When the report comes
in Parliament then we can have a debate on that...," Tewari told reporters here on Saturday.
The Information and Broadcasting Minister further defended the draft JPC report saying, it was the JPC secretariat which prepared the report. "...those persons who reject the (JPC draft) report or who make unnecessary comments, they perhaps forgot that Public Accounts Committee report whose Chairman is Murli Manohar Joshi was also prepared by his secretariat. Likewise, it has been a tradition that JPC secretariat prepares the report and then sends it to members," said the Lok Sabha MP from Ludhiana....
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02:47 PM, Mar 11, 2013
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10:17 AM, Mar 09, 2013
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02:58 AM, Feb 17, 2013
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02:21 AM, Feb 17, 2013
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07:58 PM, Feb 16, 2013
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08:30 AM, Feb 13, 2013
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04:41 AM, Feb 06, 2013
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01:54 AM, Jan 15, 2013
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02:11 PM, Dec 09, 2012
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05:06 PM, Dec 05, 2012
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01:40 PM, Nov 26, 2012
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08:40 PM, Nov 25, 2012
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11:54 PM, Nov 23, 2012
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08:49 PM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: CAG's ex-principal auditor RP Singh on Friday made startling revelations about the agency's 2G report saying that it was audited without guidelines and influenced by Public Accounts Committee Chairman Murli Manohar Joshi. In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, Singh further stated that the loss figure of Rs 1.76 lakh crore was presumptive, which he had deleted from the draft report but which was restored in the final copy....
08:18 AM, Nov 23, 2012
Kolkata: The BJP on Sunday alleged there was a possibility that the recent flopped spectrum sale was "deliberately manipulated" to show that the CAG's calculation of presumptive loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the exchequer was erroneous and demanded a probe in this regard. "There is a possibility that this auction has been deliberately manipulated," senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi said. Expressing surprise at "important telecom players not...
08:42 PM, Nov 18, 2012
