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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) Report Submitted to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Tuesday Oct 29,2013


JPC Chairman PC Chacko submitted the report along with the dissent notes, which termed it as a "bundle of contradictions" to the Speaker at her official residence.
JPC chairman P.C. Chacko comes out of Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar's residence after submitting the committee's report on 2G scam, in New Delhi on Tuesday
P.C. Chacko, Chairman, Joint Parliamentary Committee (left), with Lok Sabha Secretary-General S. Balsekar, addresses a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday



The report, which delved into the period between 1998 and 2009, will be tabled in Parliament in the Winter Session likely to commence in the first week of December 2013

The JPC Report which was adopted by majority vote on September 27 in the absence of two JD(U) members, also accuses Raja of forging the press note of January 7, 2008, after it was seen by the then Solicitor General G E Vahanvatigave a clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the 2G spectrum scam saying he was "misled" by the then Telecom Minister A Raja and also rubbishes the loss figure of Rs. 1.76 lakh crore estimated by Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), saying it was "ill-conceived"

Eleven opposition members voted against the JPC report. BJP's Gopinath Munde had not attended the meeting.

Six parties have submitted dissent notes (The dissent notes are a way to record members' objections to the findings and are appended with the final report when it is tabled)

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