Author: Press Trust of India
Publication: NDTV.com
Date: February 3, 2011
URL: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/who-is-rajas-godfather-asks-nitin-gadkari-83288
The BJP has said that the government should
not make A Raja and Suresh Kalmadi scapegoats in the 2G spectrum issue and
Commonwealth Games scams and asserted that since all decisions were taken
by the Union Cabinet and the Prime Minister, a Joint Parliamentary Committee
(JPC) probe alone could bring out the truth.
"The decisions by (former Telecom Minister)
A Raja and other ministers, were taken with the permission of the Union Cabinet
and the Prime Minister somewhere or the other during the process... so who
is Raja's Godfather and who all were involved should be revealed to the nation
which is the right of the people," BJP President Nitin Gadkari told reporters.
He stuck to the BJP stand that until a JPC
is formed, the whole truth will not come out.
"It will be an eyewash until the whole
truth is revealed and the inquiry is made till the last point," Gadkari
said.
He alleged that the Congress and UPA were
involved in the 2G Spectrum allocation scam and without them this scandal
was not possible.
"Others cannot get away with a clean
image by sacrificing Kalmadi and Raja - though the two may be guilty. The
government cannot make them scapegoats and get away," he said.
He also alleged that the Prime Minister should
be held responsible for the policy decisions on 2G spectrum allocation.
"The principal secretary wrote a note
that the Group of Ministers taking out the pricing clause would be harmful
for the nation. If the Prime Minister had accepted it then, this situation,
perhaps, would not have arisen," Gadkari said.
He claimed that "under some pressure"
the Prime Minister over-ruled the principal secretary and gave permission.
"In this department (Telecom), in a way
a license was given by the Central government to openly indulge in corruption.
The Government seems to have outsourced this department to DMK," Gadkari
said.
He demanded that a full inquiry should be
conducted to bring out the truth "in black and white".
