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| 2G row: I called the CAG, |
| 2G row: I called the CAG, not CAG officials, says Murli Manohar Joshi
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| INDIA
, 24-November-2012
3:40:3 AM |
| Senior BJP leader and Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Murli Manohar Joshi has refuted allegations made by former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) official RP Singh, saying that he has the authority to call any official to get information. Mr Singh had accused the PAC Chairman of unethical behaviour by getting in touch with the CAG while preparing his report on the 2G case.
When asked if he denies that officials from the CAG's office came to meet him on April 26, Mr Joshi told NDTV, "Totally, people come to my house when I call them... I have the authority to call any officer... Not only CAG officer, I can call any officer. I have being calling officers, they have to explain things to me... If I need a file, CAG officers come and show it to me... I need information on the basis of the report."
"Whomsoever I call they will come... I can't say on specific date who came and who didn't come but, Mr Singh was not there he himself says that... then how does he know that there was a meeting and people came and didn't come," Mr Singh said when asked if people from the CAG office came and met him on the specific dates that Mr Singh had mentioned.
Mr Singh had also questioned the national auditor's estimates of presumptive loss figure of Rs. 1.76 lakh crore in the 2G spectrum allocation. He said that according to him, the loss due to the first-come-first -served policy followed by the government was Rs. 37,000 crore and this too, he said, was entirely recoverable.
The government has always contested the CAG's estimated loss figure.
The former auditor's claims sparked a furore with Congress and Left leaders demanding a reply from the BJP, as well as the CAG. When reporters asked UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi whether the BJP had been "exposed" by the former auditor's revelations, she said "Yes, absolutely I think so."
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