November 14, 2010 5:44 PM

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Anything about Raja will be said in Parliament: Pranab Mukherje

Senior Congress leader and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has refused to comment on spectrum controversy involving telecom minister A Raja.Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function in New Delhi today, he said that whatever has to be said will be said in Parliament. Earlier during the day, the top brass of Congress today discussed the opposition demands for the removal of Telecom Minister A Raja from the Union Cabinet. The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and party chief Mrs Sonia Gandhi, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Political Secretary to the Congress President, Ahmed Patel attended the meeting. The deliberations took place at Parliament House where they had gone to pay tributes to Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru on his 121st birth anniversary. Mr.Raja belongs to the UPA ally, DMK. AIR correspondents reports , the consultations by Congress leaders assume significance in the wake of the opposition, including BJP and the Left, threatening to continue to stall Parliament if Raja is not removed from the Union Council of Ministers. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function in New Delhi today, senior Congress leader and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee refused to comment on spectrum controversy involving telecom minister A Raja. He said that whatever has to be said will be said in Parliament. In a related development, the Supreme Court will hear the petition against Telecom Minister A Raja tomorrow. A bench comprising Justice G S Singhvi and Justice A K Ganguly would hear the two petitions filed by one NGO CPIL and Subramanian Swamy alleging corruption in the entire spectrum allocation. Union minister G K Vasan has said, it is not “morally correct” for opposition parties to seek the resignation of Telecom Minister A Raja over the 2G spectrum allocation issue as the CAG report is yet to be tabled in Parliament. He told reporters in Chennai that the opposition has been “unnecessarily” stalling the proceedings in Parliament over the issue.

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