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Publication: The Times of India
Date: May 1, 2011
BJP leader and PAC chief M M Joshi, who handed
over the panel's report on the 2G scam to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on
Saturday, said the Congress was opposing the report because it "does
not want the truth about corruption to come out".
"It was extraordinary that ministers
were present in Parliament, sending in chits and calling members, telling
them what to do," the BJP leader said. Dismissing the ruling party's
charge that the document was a "Joshi report" meant as a hatchet
job on the Prime Minister and the government, Joshi pointed out that the very
same Congress had praised him as "wise, senior and neutral" just
a couple of months ago. "Why did this change?" he remarked. Providing
the answer himself, Joshi said, "Things began to change in April when
the committee decided to call top officials like the cabinet secretary, the
principal secretary to the PM, attorney general and the CBI director."
Joshi's aggressive remarks show that the UPA-opposition
fight over the report is unlikely to end soon. The UPA had rejected the draft
circulated by Joshi, saying that it was not the report of the committee but
merely represented the partisan views of the chairman.
