Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee met in New York on Sunday evening for the first time
after the 2G note controversy erupted.
Pranab refused to speak on the issue, saying the matter is sub judice and he would first speak to "valued colleague" P Chidambaram and other leaders.
The CBI’s duty is to enquire and investigate whenever the evidence of latest comes out. Already A.Raja, the first accused has already told the court that the Home Minister Chidambaram and PM Manmohan Sigh know much and they should be quest.
In a new twist in the 2G controversy, sources have told CNN-IBN that Home Minister P Chidambaram had offered to resign when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called him. Sources say this prompted the prime minister to wholeheartedly back his home minister.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he has full faith in Chidambaram during both his stints as finance and now home minister. He also made it clear that there was no rift between his senior most ministers and that the government was in no mood to give in to pressure from the Opposition.
The prime minister has chosen to downplay his meeting with Mukherjee in New York, saying there was nothing unusual in it.
Congress sources maintain that top leaders, including the prime minister, are likely to meet party president Sonia Gandhi, once the PM returns. Gandhi has directed her party members to maintain a united front in the face of opposition charges that there was a rift within the two top Congress ministers.
So, it is no surprise that All India Congress Committee general secretary Digvijay Singh, considered a Chidambaram-baiter, has come out in full support of the home minister, alleging he was being targeted by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and saffron parties. The government and the Congress have been in a firefighting mode to save the multi-pronged attack on the UPA from both BJP and Left parties.
The president of AICC Sonia Gandhi also asked the entire Congress cadre behind the Chidambaram. What is this discrimination?
Can one feel the CBI is an independent body when we see the statements favor or in support of Chidambaram.
The same Congress party is silent on Chidambaram’s role in 2G Spectrum. They don’t show interest to open the mouth on Mukesh Ambani’s role in KG Basin’s report of CAG.
If we see all of this the CBI is definitely vindictive on some persons who are not interested by AICC President Sonia Gandhi or party elders.
One thing is evident that the PM Manmohan Singh has been made by the people from his own league to make way for the next prime ministerial candidate, Rahul Gandhi.
Raja informed the PM that both issuance of 121 new licenses and 35 dual technology licences, "were discussed with external affairs minister at length."
The late PM PV Narasimha Rao was always correct that if anything of like this happens, his comment was ‘law will take it’s own course’.
It is better to recollect the facts of Chidambaram in LIC and Andhra Bank episodes few years before.
Trouble began when an RTI note revealed that Pranab Mukherjee's ministry had written to the Prime Minister's Office saying that Chidambaram could have prevented the 2G scam.With a 1.76 lakh Rupees scam for which DMK Minister A. Raja is in jail, it was obvious from day one and more so after the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Siungh admitted that he knew about the scam but had to keep quiet due to Coalition Dharma. What he meant was that the Congress also shared in the profits due to the scam and Raja was not the only beneficiary. The Congress since Indira Gandhi's days as Prime Minister, has been seeped in corruption. Remember, she was the one who, as Prime Minister made the statement "Corruption is a global phenomenon". After this, anyone being accused of corruption, gave the same excuse, justifying their being corrupt. All this money is in Swiss Banks. It is brought out during elections for expenditure in excess of what the Election Commission permits and to bribe the voters. Also remember the Rs. 65 lakhs withdrawn around election time, from State Bank of India, 4 decades ago, which got exposed in the Press. .All the three witnesses, the Cashier at SBI Branch from where the money was withdrawn, the person who withdrew the money on Smt. Gandhi's behalf and the driver of the car who took this person to the SBI Branch...all three died in mysterious circumstances. Why do you think the Congress is not serious about getting back the black money stashed abroad while other Governments in the world are putting pressure on Swiss Banks to expose the names of those holding accounts in the Swiss Banks? Money paid by Bofors, HDW, HInduja, UNION CARBIDE etc. etc. etc., to the Congress is all stashed in Swiss Banks. Wonder if Sonia Gandhi's secret visit out of the country, on grounds of treatment, saying it is a private matter, was really to reconcile accounts in the Swiss Banks and ensure they did not come out in the open. Rajiv Gandhi's name already appears in the list along with Sharad Pawar and several others. !!!
With Additional Inputs from PTI
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