JPC report on 2G delayed further, to be tabled in winter session

GN Bureau | September 1, 2013



Scheduled to be tabled in Lok Sabha on September 30, the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) report on 2G spectrum scam is leant to be delayed further – it will now surface in the winter session of Parliament.

Though the delay is being cited due to selection of two Rajya Sabha MPs, observers attribute more political reasons behind it.

JPC chairman PC Chacko is yet to convene the meeting to second the newly nominated members from Rajya Sabha, who are to be given 15 days to read the draft report.

The 850-page JPC draft report on 2G spectrum scam was circulated to its 30 members in July. Every chapter in the voluminous report has to be approved by the committee.

But political observers say the Congress is not overtly worried about the delay in tabling the report – the party high command reportedly feels the more the JPC report is delayed, higher the infighting in the DMK. With former telecom minister A Raja, senior leader in the DMK, already sidelined, further delay can only harm the DMK. In fact, observers say, neither the Congress nor the DMK is overtly concerned about the JPC on 2G, as the issue has become slightly irrelevant politically, and has been put in the cold storage.

While the Congress is not in a mood to rush the JPC’s proceedings since it wants to ally with the DMK in Tamil Nadu, the party’s crisis managers have split the JPC effectively by asking DMK not to insist on filling up the vacancy caused by the demitting of office by Trichy Siva, the DMK  MP.

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