Scrapped JPC witness list included Vajpayee, Fernandes and spared PM
The Joint Parliamentary Committee, going into the 2G spectrum allocation scam, was on Tuesday forced to withdraw a list of witnesses which, to the shock of its members, included the former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and the former Defence Minister, George Fernandes, while omitting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The list included Home Minister P. Chidambaram, the former Telecom Minister, A. Raja, and the Telecom Ministers in the NDA regime, Jagmohan, Arun Shourie and Sushma Swaraj. Both the ED and the CBI are now working under the supervision of the Supreme Court, and their answers reveal that the JPC’s results themselves, in terms of its report, really rests upon the final list of witnesses it will summons. While consensus on the final list may not emerge by the next meeting, given the extreme media and public scrutiny of the working of the JPC, the committee will find itself increasingly hard-pressed to ride rough shod over its members suggesting legitimate names.
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