Joining the heated debate over the draft report of the public account committee (PAC) of parliament on the 2G scam, the Congress slammed the BJP and the Left for displaying "blatent opportunism, collusion and complicity in destabilising secular forces" like the UPA. Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that the PAC was being converted into a BJP-Left party forum instead of a parliamentary committee.

He added that BJP veteran Murli Manohar Joshi, who headed the PAC, had shown "unholy haste" in doing his party's bidding which was actively supported by the Left. The Congresss spokesperson also said that all norms of discussion and debate were thrown to the wind and that the draft was hurriedly authored and biased.

Reacting to the allegations that the Purulia arms drop case of the 1990s was a Congress government attempt to destablise the Left in West, Singhvi said the BJP wanted the whole nation to answer questions and charges thrown by two anti-national elements (Kim Davy and Peter Bleach) after 16 years.

"The BJP wants us to rely on the allegation made suddenly after 16 years. The BJP has themselves, earlier party president and perennial prime ministerial candidate, L K Advani, sought presidential pardon for these persons and escorted them out of jail. This is the same BJP who follows the glorious tradition of escorting terrorists to Kandahar and arms droppers like Peter Bleach out of Indian jails," he added.

Singhvi also raised questions over actions of late Indrajit Gupta of CPI who was the home minister during 1996-98. He added, "the Left suffers from greater amnesia than the BJP, though the amnesia is equally convenient, continuous and self serving. They do not tell the nation, but we want to know, what the Leftist home minister did to address the issue from 1996 to 1998 after the arms drop of 1995, and thereafter what did the Vajpayee government do to honourably relaese such transnational criminals."

The Congress spokesperson also linked the Purulia issue with the West Bengal elections. Singhvi said that there was an ulterior motive on the part of BJP and Left in this sudden disclosures after 16 years in the middle of West Bengal assembly elections. The party spokesperson saw it as an effort to save the extinstion of the Left in West Bengal.