New Delhi: All predecessors of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and ministers who held the coal portfolio from 1993 should also be summoned by CBI, if he has to face the agency in Coalgate probe, Union Minister Manish Tewari said today.
Asserting that Singh has an impeccable track record in the government and there has never been a question with regard to his integrity, he hit out at attempts “to politicize things in the ongoing investigations”.
”If at all, this is being speculated, I would request keep this in mind that this should be a principle which should apply across the board,” Tewari told reporters when asked at a function here about Union Minister Kamal Nath's remark that the PM will make himself available to CBI in the Coalgate
investigation if a formal request is made.
Tewari said if a conjecture is made with regard to the PM, “we must keep in mind that the coal allocation covers the entire period from 1993 to 2009 and during this period various other ministers, former prime ministers and leaders of other political parties have also held charge of the coal ministry”.
