UPA doesn’t want 2nd term for Joshi
Amidst the ongoing crisis on the PAC report, sources said the committee has to give it either unanimously or with dissent notes by members who hold different views, but it cannot accept or reject a report on numbers.
In a related development, Congress MP K.S. Rao, who is a member of the PAC, said any attempt by Dr Joshi to present the report to the Lok Sabha Speaker would amount to making a mockery of democratic institutions.
“The chairman of a committee presents a report to the Speaker only if it is passed by the majority of the members present and voting and is authorised by them to present it,” Mr Rao said.
The UPA is now mounting pressure that Dr Joshi should not get a second term. “If they dictate who should be PAC chairman, then the Opposition (will) dictate who should be in the Cabinet,” argued a section of MPs.
While the Opposition is backing Dr Joshi on the report, Congress ministers are criticising the PAC chairman.
The CPI(M) on Friday disapproved of the way the Congress and the DMK MPs behaved at the PAC meeting, saying it showed that they wanted to scuttle any report.
Party general secretary Prakash Karat said the CPI(M) MP in the PAC did not agree with the Congress and DMK members’ stand. “The way in which members of Congress and DMK have behaved shows that they wanted to scuttle any report which will go into CAG report conclusions (on 2G scam). They have adopted a stand to scuttle it,” he told reporters.
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