BJP patriarch L.K. Advani on Sunday said Union home minister P. Chidambaram’s alleged role in the 2G spectrum allocation scam “merits” serious probe.
“While framing of charges of fraud against former communications minister A. Raja, an MP, several officials and functionaries of companies that allegedly benefited from the scam is welcome, I believe the probe has left some important facets out of its ambit”, Mr Advani, who was on his two-day Janchetna Yatra in Chhattisgarh, told reporters here while reacting to filing of the final chargsheet in the case by CBI in the Delhi high court on Saturday. Making his case for the necessity to investigate Mr Chidambaram’s role in the 2G scam, he said, “What prompted the finance ministry to change its stated position on auctioning scarce spectrum remains an abiding mystery. Why did Mr Chidambaram concur with Mr Raja’s decision to allot spectrum in 2008 at 2001 prices, days after giving an opinion to the contrary?”