JD(U) spokesperson and MP Shivanand Tiwari on Wednesday said here that the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, who is doing moral preachings at the election meetings in the state, should own moral responsibility for the 2G spectrum scam causing a loss of Rs 1.7 lakh crore to the nation.
He said, the 2G spectrum scam is the mother of all scams and the prime minister office cannot feign ignorance about and the department of telecommunications (DoT) had ignored the instructions of the union minstries of finance and law for following the legal norms and steps for granting the licence for 2G spectrum.
Tiwari told TOI that the NDA government in Bihar had taken stringent actions and enacted laws to check corruption. "Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has taken it as a major challenge to check corruption in the next five years," Tiwary said.
Tiwari added that the DoT had issued 25 questions to the 232 applicants for 2G spectrum to reply despite this 85 of the ineligible applicants were granted the licence for the 2G spectrum. "They accounted for seventy percent of 122 applicants, who were given 2G spectrum licence clearly indicating the massive corruption in grant of licence for 2G spectrum by the UPA government which finally led to ouster of communications and IT minister, A Raja," he said.
According to him, PM Manmohan Singh has directly come into the picture with the Supreme Court asking the union government to explain as to why the sanctioning authority, who was the PM himself, had remained silent for 11 months on a petition of Subramanyam Swamy seeking prosecution sanction against A Raja. The PM and his office acted bizarre despite the fact that the CBI had registered FIR against unknown persons on October 21, 2009, in the matter, he added.
He said, the 2G spectrum scam is the mother of all scams and the prime minister office cannot feign ignorance about and the department of telecommunications (DoT) had ignored the instructions of the union minstries of finance and law for following the legal norms and steps for granting the licence for 2G spectrum.
Tiwari told TOI that the NDA government in Bihar had taken stringent actions and enacted laws to check corruption. "Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has taken it as a major challenge to check corruption in the next five years," Tiwary said.
Tiwari added that the DoT had issued 25 questions to the 232 applicants for 2G spectrum to reply despite this 85 of the ineligible applicants were granted the licence for the 2G spectrum. "They accounted for seventy percent of 122 applicants, who were given 2G spectrum licence clearly indicating the massive corruption in grant of licence for 2G spectrum by the UPA government which finally led to ouster of communications and IT minister, A Raja," he said.
According to him, PM Manmohan Singh has directly come into the picture with the Supreme Court asking the union government to explain as to why the sanctioning authority, who was the PM himself, had remained silent for 11 months on a petition of Subramanyam Swamy seeking prosecution sanction against A Raja. The PM and his office acted bizarre despite the fact that the CBI had registered FIR against unknown persons on October 21, 2009, in the matter, he added.
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