New Delhi: The Finance Ministry's note on P Chidambaram's actions during the telecom scam continues to cause commotion for the government.
Today, members of opposition parties who belong to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) studying the scam asked why this note had not been submitted or mentioned in the past and demanded that Finance Ministry officials be summoned.
Prepared in March by a bureaucrat, the note was sent to the Prime Minister's Office and faults Mr Chidambaram as Finance Minister in 2008 for not insisting that spectrum be auctioned by A Raja, former telecom Minister now in jail for masterminding India's biggest scam.
The note was accessed through a Right to Information application and submitted to the Supreme Court last week. It has allowed the Opposition to demand Mr Chidambaram be fired and investigated for the telecom scam.
The fact that a section of his own government has criticized Mr Chidambaram's policies has put the Congress in an awkward position, particularly because of reports that the note, "seen by" Pranab Mukherjee, exposes a rivalry between two of the government's senior-most ministers.
Both Mr Chidambaram and Mr Mukherjee met Congress President Sonia Gandhi separately last evening.
The JPC was set up earlier this year at the Opposition's insistence. It combines members from different political parties.
Today, members of opposition parties who belong to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) studying the scam asked why this note had not been submitted or mentioned in the past and demanded that Finance Ministry officials be summoned.
Prepared in March by a bureaucrat, the note was sent to the Prime Minister's Office and faults Mr Chidambaram as Finance Minister in 2008 for not insisting that spectrum be auctioned by A Raja, former telecom Minister now in jail for masterminding India's biggest scam.
The note was accessed through a Right to Information application and submitted to the Supreme Court last week. It has allowed the Opposition to demand Mr Chidambaram be fired and investigated for the telecom scam.
The fact that a section of his own government has criticized Mr Chidambaram's policies has put the Congress in an awkward position, particularly because of reports that the note, "seen by" Pranab Mukherjee, exposes a rivalry between two of the government's senior-most ministers.
Both Mr Chidambaram and Mr Mukherjee met Congress President Sonia Gandhi separately last evening.
The JPC was set up earlier this year at the Opposition's insistence. It combines members from different political parties.
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