Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Congress in troubleshooting mode-2G note

New Delhi:  The Congress was sleepless in Delhi last night. Fire-fighting ministers burnt the proverbial midnight oil in their attempt to quell the 2G note war between the party's two senior-most ministers, Pranab Mukherjee and P Chidambaram, as they prepared for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's return from New York today.

The controversy over a note sent by Mr Mukherjee's Finance Ministry to the Prime Minister' office on the 2G spectrum scam in March this year has the top echelons of the party exercised - Congress president Sonia Gandhi met both Mr Chidambaram and Mr Mukherjee separately last evening. There were reports that Mr Chidambaram had offered to resign.

He is upset because the Finance Ministry note questions his actions when the telecom scam was playing out in 2008. It suggests that Mr Chidambaram, who was then Finance Minister, should have done more to ensure that spectrum was not given at throwaway rates to companies that were being favoured by A Raja, who was then Telecom Minister and is now in jail.

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