November 14, 2010 4:45 PM

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Demand for A Raja’s resignation is discussed at top level Congress meet

The top brass of Congress today discussed the opposition demands for the removal of Telecom Minister A Raja from the Union Cabinet for his role in 2G Spectrum allocation. 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 meet. The deliberations took place at Parliament House. The leaders were at Parliament House to pay floral tributes at the portrait of the country's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his 121st birth anniversary. In a related development, Defence Minister A K Antony today said, no cover up and no witch hunt is the Government policy. Declining to make any detailed comment on the row over 2G Spectrum issue, he told reporters to wait and watch. Mr Antony was talking to the media on the sidelines of a function in Thiruananthapuram. 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

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