New Delhi: In wake of former CAG official RP Singh claiming his comments on PAC chairman Murli Manohar Joshi on the 2G issue were misquoted, BJP on Monday asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi to retract her statement in which she had attacked the main Opposition party.
"In light of what RP Singh has stated, the BJP would like to know from Sonia Gandhiji would she retract her comment almost condemning the BJP in the most abusive terms," BJP chief spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters outside Parliament here.
He said the core issue was rampant corruption in allocation of 2G licences, which were subsequently cancelled by the Supreme Court. Prasad said it was deeply regrettable and condemnable" for the Congress president to question the bona fide of BJP which is the principal Opposition party based on a "motivated comments" of a retired CAG official.
"Yes, certainly I think so," Gandhi had earlier told reporters here when asked whether BJP had been "exposed" by Singh's comments. Singh had recently said that the Public Accounts Committee had suggested one of the methodologies to CAG to calculate the losses due to 2G spectrum allocation, which were pegged at Rs 1.76 lakh crore in its final report....
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01:40 PM, Nov 26, 2012
Former Director General of Audit, Post and Telecommunications, CAG, RP Singh on Saturday made a U-turn on his earlier claim that Public Accounts Committee Chairman and BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi had influenced the 2G report that indicted the government. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, the ex-audit officer said that he had been misquoted by the newspaper which had initially carried the report. Below is the transcript of...
07:18 AM, Nov 25, 2012
New Delhi: The ruling-coalition UPA's key constituent, the DMK will move a motion in Parliament for a discussion on the charges levelled by ex-CAG audit officer RP Singh against BJP leader and Public Accounts Committee Chairman Murli Manohar Joshi, government sources say. The government is understood to be in favour of a discussion over the charge by the former Director General, Post and Telecommunications, CAG, that Joshi had called audit...
09:13 AM, Nov 24, 2012
New Delhi: A seemingly calm and composed Murli Manohar Joshi, senior BJP leader and PAC Chairman, on Friday demanded that UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi apologise for her remark against his party over the latest row over the CAG's 2G report. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Joshi said that he would quit PAC if ex-CAG principal audit officer's charges against him, that he had influenced the 2G report, were proved. "I never influenced...
03:37 PM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: BJP leader and PAC Chairman Murli Manohar Joshi has hit back at the Congress after the latter said a probe must be ordered into the latest allegations to hit the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) over its 2G report. An ex-auditor of CAG, RP Singh said that Joshi had influenced the report and that the loss figure mentioned in it was presumptive which had been added...
12:43 PM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: 12.12 pm: Rajya Sabha adjourned till 2.30 pm. 12.07 pm: Select Committee's report on Lokpal Bill tabled in Rajya Sabha amidst much uproar. 12.06 pm: Lok Sabha adjourned till Monday 12 noon: Parliament resumes, uproar continues. Slogan shouting in both Houses continue. 11.04 am: Lok Sabha adjourned after Opposition uproar over FDI in retail. 11.02 am: Rajya Sabha adjourned after uproar over SC/ST bill. 11.01 am: Session begins,...
10:58 AM, Nov 23, 2012
