Jaya urges PM to divest Union Minister Raja of Telecom portfolio
Chennai | Wednesday, Nov 18 2009 IST
 

AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa today urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to divest Union Minister A Raja of the Telecom portfolio immediately to ensure a free and fair probe by the CBI into the Spectrum scam.

In an open letter to the Prime Minister, copies of which were released to the media here, she said Mr Raja should be divested of the telecom portfolio to prevent tampering of evidence and influencing officials who were in the know of things of the multicrore spectrum scandal.

Quoting a series of documents and letters between the Telecom and the Law Ministry, she said the documents clearly indicate that the Union Law Minister had reservations about the 'first-come-first-served' policy for spectrum allocation as advocated by Mr Raja. The documents also indicate that Prime Minister himself was unhappy about the process and advised caution and transparency. The TRAI had also suggested that the policy be abandoned and the more appropriate system of auctions be adopted. ''Yet Raja had gone ahead with a first-come-first-served sale of spectrum licences,'' she claimed.

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