2G scam biggest loot of country’s property: Sharad Yadav
By IANSFriday, December 17, 2010
GHAZIABAD - Janata Dal-United (JD-U) chief and National Democratic Alliance convenor Sharad Yadav Friday termed the 2G spectrum scam as the “biggest-ever loot of the country’s property” and lambasted the government form it.
Yadav, calling for a joint parliamentary committee probe into the 2G issue, said at a press conference here the people of the country should decide the fate of the “scamsters who had brutally looted the exchequer of the country”.
Yadav also said that new Communications Minister Kapil Sibal wanted to take credit for the probe while the investigation has been speeded up due to the Supreme Court’s intervention.
He demanded that the Central Bureau of Investigation, that is probing the issue, should be made an autonomous body.
Yadav said the probe should be from 1998 covering the NDA government tenure. He denied that the opposition’s demand for a JPC that led to wash-out of the entire winter session was an attempt to make parliament insignificant.
Justifying the demand for a JPC, Yadav said the Supreme Court was only supervising the 2G spectrum while the JPC was being demanded for all three scams - 2G spectrum, Adarsh society land scam and Commonwealth Games scam.
Commenting on Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit, Yadav said that Indian foreign policy “is very weak”. “Most of the priority issues of Brahmaputra river issue, stapled visa to Kashmiris and the issue related to the border dispute in Arunachal Pradesh are still kept pending, while the Chinese premier succeeded in clearing and signed all his agendas on this visit.”
“It was a successful commercial visit for the Chinese premier and utter failure for Indian counterparts,” he maintained.
K.C. Tyagi, general secretary of the JD-U, proposed a condolence resolution on the death of socialist leader Surendra Mohan during the press conference.
