New Delhi: The meeting of JPC on 2G scam tomorrow is set to be a stormy affair as the panel readies to adopt its controversial draft report which gave clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and indicted former Telecom Minister A Raja.
In an embarrassment for Congress, its key UPA ally NCP has also demanded calling Raja as a witness, saying it is only fair to listen to a person who has been blamed in the draft report.
By demanding that Raja be called as a witness, it has joined opposition parties, including BJP, the Left, DMK and JD (U) over the issue.
”It is the opinion of the party. We have registered our opinion to the JPC. But we do not wish to make it into an issue. We have told the committee our stand,” the sole NCP member in the panel Y P Trivedi told PTI.
Senior DMK member and sole representative of his party in the Committee, T R Baalu, while demanding that the former Telecom Minister be called as a witness, has also demanded examining fresh documents before adopting the report.
