The Supreme Court's embarrassing observation that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had inordinately delayed taking a decision on Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy's plea for sanction to prosecute the former Telecom Minister, A. Raja, in the 2G spectrum allocation issue has left both the government and the Congress red-faced and groping for a response.
If the Congress told journalists that it would respond only after it “studied” and “analysed” the court observations, government sources admitted that there had been some bungling in responding to Dr. Swamy's petition. The sources said the new Telecom Minister, Kapil Sibal, had been asked to deal with the matter.
For the Congress, grappling with a united Opposition, still insistent on a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe, the court's observations could not have come at a worse moment, even though the Comptroller and Auditor-General's report, tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, revealed that Mr. Raja's actions resulted in a revenue loss of Rs. 1.76 lakh crore as he had ignored the advice of the Prime Minister and the Ministries of Law and Finance.
www.thehindu.com-Court observations - Congress red faced
Let it be made clear for the aam admi, whether the court has objected to the delay by PM to give sanction for the prosecution of a central minister? OR not giving prompt reply to the petitioner Swami, who has filed a SLA with the apex court,as well as written several letters to the PM?How could the court's observation could leave the Congress "red-faced"?
ReplyDeleteCAG report was tabled on Tuesday,16th November,2010,four days ago, but for the last several months the whopping loss to theExchequer
has been talked about by so many?How could that be accepted as authentic<Advani says unpresedented sacm over the last 60 years! has he forgotten the CAg showed the Kargil Coffingate loss as Rs.1,76,000 crioress and NDA govt. has written off Rs.8o,ooo crores, further, there were several scams in the defencee ministry in NDA rule. BJP did not remove Fernandes, thec convenor of NDA!with what face it could talk about congress now?