The government today said, there is no question of anyone benefiting from coal block allocation as the mineral was never sold. Talking to reporters in New Delhi today, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal also rejected Opposition demand for cancellation of the licences for coal block allocation. He said that such a step will cause huge monetary loss and badly affect the country's power sector. Mr Sibal accused the BJP of raking up the issue for no reason because of its desperation to come to power at the Centre before 2014.

Mr Sibal also appealed to the BJP to debate and discuss the CAG report on Coal allocation in Parliament.