RS: The impression is that you gave information to your friends that this is the cutoff date, apply and get the license.
A Raja: This is not in the evidence.
RS: I'll tell you what the CAG report says. It says Hon'ble Minister of communication& IT , for no apparent logical or valid reasons, ignored the advice of ministry of law , ministry of finance, avoided deliberation of telecom commission to allocate 2G spectrum. This was given to make it flexible criteria and procedures adopted to benefit a few operators.
A Raja: I'm the first minister to make the law more stringent. Those who did not get licenses turned against me.
RS: Not only operators, P Chidamram said that he had advised you against allocating licences.
A Raja: No, show me the letter. Different branches are working in the govt. A principal may not know what is happening in different branches. Similarly, PM or FM are entitled to write a letter. Finance Secy D Subbarao wrote a letter to my secy (telecom secy) asking whether the entry fee of 1650 crore fixed in 2001 or 2003 can be revised or not. He said that you apprise me and till then stop your proceedings. The telecom scy replied that these decisions were taken in cabinet and it was reiterated not to change the entry fee. Even TRAI had advised against changing the entry fee. It was approved by telecom commission. It was placed before P Chidambaram and he said that he wanted to see all the orders. He saw everything and closed the chapter. In spite of that, a charge is filed against me that I ignored the advice of FM. I asked the court to investigate if I ignored the advice but till this date, there is no reply.
RS: I have a list of letters that you had written to PM and the replies sent by PM. On 2nd November, you wrote a letter in the morning, the PM replied in the afternoon but you wrote a new letter in the evening. The result is that whatever Raja wants in the telecommunication ministry will be done.
A Raja: I wrote a letter for some purpose. He wrote a letter for some other purpose. I replied to his letter.
