2G Spectrum Back In News With Ex-CAG Vinod Rai’s Apology
- iamjoyblessy
- May 27, 2022
- 1 min read
He years of UPA-2 (2009-14) saw “corruption” emerge as the leading political issue, as CAG reports on the 2G spectrum scam and the coal blocks scam were written about and discussed. From Parliament to the streets, corruption seemed to be the one issue that generated heat.
Eventually, then PM Manmohan Singh began to face the heat in Parliament. This Thursday, then CAG Vinod Rai issued a written apology to Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam for having “incorrectly stated” that the MP had pressurised him to not mention Manmohan Singh in the report.The apology brings some sense of closure for both Manmohan Singh and Nirupam.
“I have inadvertently and wrongly mentioned the name of Shri Sanjay Nirupam as one of the MPs who pressurised me to keep the then Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s name out of the CAG report on 2G spectrum allocation during the meetings of the PAC or the sidelines of the JPC etc,” Rai writes in the letter.
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