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| 2G verdict in Chidambaram's favour: |
| 2G verdict in Chidambaram's favour: 10 big facts
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| INDIA
, 4-February-2012
4:20:42 AM |
| The government can exhale. A special CBI court headed by Judge OP Saini has ruled that Home Minister P Chidambaram will not be made a co-accused in the scam. Here are ten big developments:
Judge Saini has rejected a petition by Subramanian Swamy asking for Mr Chidambaram to be held criminally culpable in the 2G scam, which played out in 2008 when he was Finance Minister. In a one-line verdict, the judge said in a packed court-room, "Prayer of Swamy to make Chidambaram an accused is dismissed.
Mr Chidambaram was at home when the judgement announced. He then left for the airport for a scheduled trip to Madurai.
Mr Swamy, who is the Janata Party president, says he will challenge the verdict in the Delhi High Court. "I am not disappointed, this is part of the game," he said. Perhaps he will have to eventually appeal to God was the wry response of Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal.
The verdict allows the government to re-claim some credibility which has been in free-fall in recent months on account of a series of financial scandals, of which the telecom scam was the biggest. "The truth can never be hidden," said Mr Sibal. "We knew all along that he was not responsible either directly or indirectly and the allegations against him were politically motivated."
The judgement weakens the opposition's demand for Mr Chidambaram's resignation. As a form of "boycott", the BJP refused to let the minister speak in Parliament in the winter session, forcing many adjournments of both Houses. The party's Ravi Shankar Prasad said today that the boycott will continue. This strategy was criticized by the BJP's former telecom minister Arun Shourie, and senior leader Jaswant Singh. Both men said that Parliament must be used as a forum for discussion, and that the BJP must use debates to challenge the government.
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