Pranab meets PM, Sonia
Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi against the backdrop of surfacing of his letter on 2G spectrum allocations.
“It was a routine meeting ...and nothing to be read (in it),” sources said.
According to the sources, there is nothing new in the letter which suggested finance ministry’s controversial March 25 note on 2G was revised after “consultations” with the Cabinet Secretariat and the PMO.
The Congress, meanwhile, refused to be drawn into the issue but insisted there was no controversy.
“Circumstances surrounding the note have been discussed . We must keep in mind that the note is reiteration of what happened between December 2003 and February 2011. If at all there is any concern with regard to interpretation and sequence of the matter in the letter, then the judgement should be left to the JPC, which has a mandate to look into the entire gamut of the spectrum allocation from 1998 to 2009,” party spokesperson Manish Tewari told reporters.
The finance ministry note of March 25 had suggested that the then finance minister P. Chidambaram could have averted the 2G scam in 2008 if he had insisted on auctioning of Spectrum, triggering a huge controversy when it became public in September.
At the height of the row over his ministry’s note, Mr Mukherjee had written to the Prime Minister suggesting that the sentence which appeared to have blamed Mr Chidambaram was “revised” after consultation with the Cabinet Secretariat and the PMO.
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