The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) looking into the 2G scam has given former telecom minister A Raja the option of giving a written explanation on Attorney General GE Vahanvati's charges in the case. The explanation will be part of the JPC's records. The JPC report on the case is likely to be submitted in the first week of May. ...
12:18 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Former Telecom Minister A Raja on Saturday wrote to Speaker Meira Kumar demanding that he be allowed to appear before the Joint Parliamentary Committee which is probing the 2G scandal. Blamed for a number of issues in the 2G scam, Raja wants to tell his side of story. ...
03:45 PM, Feb 23, 2013
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath on Tuesday said that the government was open to a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe on the AgustaWestland chopper deal. A Central Bureau of Investigation team on Tuesday reached Milan in Italy to probe the allegations of kickbacks in the Rs 3,600 crore deal. ...
04:47 PM, Feb 19, 2013
Rejecting the need to call CBI public prosecutor AK Singh and Unitech MD Sanjay Chandra, who allegedly colluded in the 2G case, JPC chief PC Chacko said, "No need to call the persons who allegedly colluded. We have called the concerned persons. We cannot call everyone. The JPC has questioned the secretaries of the concerned ministries. We had questioned the CBI director today." ...
07:17 PM, Feb 12, 2013
PC Chacko said that according to the CBI chief, the reports regarding allegations of collusion between its former prosecutor AK Singh and United MD Sanjay Chandra are correct. ...
05:50 PM, Feb 12, 2013
A day after CNN-IBN revealed possible collusion between the prosecution and the accused in the 2G case, sources have indicated that the Bharatiya Janata Party will use the expose to demand the extension of the Joint Parliamentary Committee session. ...
10:31 AM, Feb 12, 2013
In what is likely to foment more trouble for the Congress-led UPA government, sources have said that former CAG official RP Singh has admitted before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) that he recommended the name of one of the officers involved in preparing the 2G report for foreign posting. ...
07:46 PM, Jan 29, 2013
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: Former Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrashekhar deposed before the Joint Parliamentary Committee probing the 2G spectrum case on Thursday. Putting the blame back on the then Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Chandrasekhar said that he saw the note that said P Chidambaram could have stopped the 2G scam for the first time when he came to the JPC. Chandrasekhar hinted that the finance ministry was behind note that blamed Chidambaram....
02:40 PM, Oct 18, 2012
New Delhi: Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) Chairman PC Chacko on Thursday said that the decision to summon Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram before the JPC in the 2G case would be taken by the Speaker. He also said that if there would be a demand for Nira Radia tapes, which are in the Supreme Court, to be placed before the JPC, he would consider it. Earlier,...
04:49 PM, Oct 11, 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: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha has written to the chief of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), PC Chacko, saying that the BJP will boycott the meeting on the 2G spectrum scam. BJP wants Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram to be called for deposition as witnesses. Expressing similar sentiments, another BJP member said there is no relevance in attending the meeting where former...
12:12 PM, 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
New Delhi: The BJP is all set to attend a crucial Joint Parliamentary Committee meeting on 2G spectrum on Tuesday. The meeting comes a month after five BJP members stormed out, attacking the Congress for its unparliamentary language and demanding the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation. The opposition also wants the prime minister and Finance Minister P Chidambaram to be called as witnesses. Former finance secretary and now RBI Governor...
06:26 AM, Sep 18, 2012
As the deadlock in Parliament over coal allocations drags on, senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha questioned the relevance of the JPC which his party boycotted last week, saying Congress refused to call the PM for meetings. ...
08:21 AM, Aug 27, 2012
All the six Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members on Wednesday walked out of a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) meeting on 2G spectrum allocation calling the JPC on the 2G probe a kangaroo court. ...
08:26 PM, Aug 22, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday threatened to resign from the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on 2G if the list of deposition did not include Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram. The list of deposition is expected to be finalised on Wednesday. Sources said that the BJP wanted the PM, Pulok Chatterjee, TKA Nair and the Finance Minister in the list of deposition. The BJP has got...
02:02 PM, Aug 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) is unlikely to call former telecom minister A Raja to depose before it in the 2G spectrum allocation scam. The next meeting of the JPC comprising parliamentarians is now set for July 18. Sources say that the JPC is of the view that there is no need to call key accused A Raja for cross-examination. Eight members of the panel have reportedly given...
05:15 PM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: There was a full blown political battle between the Congress-led UPA and BJP-led NDA members at the Joint Parliamentary Committee meeting on the 2G scam on whether former telecom minister A Raja should be called to depose or not. The UPA members say if Raja is called, then all the concerned ministers of the previous NDA government must also be called. BJP leaders Yashwant Sinha and Jaswant Singh...
02:06 PM, Jun 19, 2012
New Delhi: Former telecom minister A Raja and ex-telecom secretary Siddharth Behura will be summoned to depose before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) examining the 2G scam. "We have decided to call Raja and Behura. While the date for Raja's appearance is not yet decided, Behura will be summoned on April 11," JPC Chairman PC Chacko said on Wednesday after the committee's meeting. Since Behura is lodged in Tihar jail,...
09:27 PM, Mar 21, 2012
