Jaya releases documents to pin Raja on spectrum scam charge
Chennai | Saturday, Nov 21 2009 IST
 

Opposition AIADMK General Secretary J Jayalalithaa today released to the media, details of various documents to fortify her charge that Union Telecom Minister A Raja had acted in a dubious manner in the allocation of 2-G Spectrum and the country had been cheated of Rs 1,00,000 crore.

After her open letter to Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh on the Rs 1,00,000 crore Rupees Spectrum scam, citing various documents which proved Mr Rajas ''complicity'', many friends from the media called up to find out whether these documents were really available with her and she was therefore releasing them to the media, she said in a statement here.

''DO letter no 007/P&T/095-25398 dated 15.11.2008 from Mr K S Ramasubban, Secretary, Central Vigilance Commission to Mr Siddhartha Bohura, Secretary, Department of Telecom, indicating that all was not well with regard to the Spectrum allocation policy of the Telecom Ministry and intimating the CVCs displeasure over the reply furnished by the Department to certain specific queries raised by the CVC. Extract of notings made by the Ministry of Law & Justice in which the Law Secretary notes on November 1, 2007, that the issues relating to the grant of Spectrum required further refinement. To this, the Union Minister for Law & Justice had observed in his own handwriting ''I agree. In view of the importance of the case and various options indicated in the statement of the case, it is necessary that the whole issue is first considered by an empowered group of ministers''. ''DO letter no 20-100/2007-AS.I dated November 2, 2007, from Union Telecom Minister Mr Raja to the Prime Minister of India that the objections of the Minister of Law & Justice notwithstanding, he intended to continue with the controversial policy of ''first-come-first-served'' for the allocation of Spectrum. A letter dated November 2, 2007- the same day as Mr Rajas letter from the Prime Minister of India drawing attention to the issues raised in the media on the allocation of Spectrum and stressing the need to ensure fairness and transparency. The letter also insists that the Prime Minister should be kept informed before any further action is taken in this regard.

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