The Prime Minister has rejected the demand of the opposition for a Joint Parliamentary Committee to go into the phone tapping issue. Speaking to the media in New Delhi, he said, that this was not a fit case for the JPC. <br/><br/>Dr. Singh said, the Home Minister, Mr. P Chidambaram had explained the phone-tapping allegations in Parliament and he himself had offered to come before Parliament. On the demand for a JPC on the IPL issue, Dr. Singh said, he does not think there is a need for it. <br/><br/>He said, JPC is a very serious issue and one cannot rush to such a conclusion in haste. <br/><br/>Opposition stalled proceedings in the two Houses of Parliament on the issue. After repeated adjournments the two Houses were adjourned for the day even though the government asserted that no telephone tapping or eaves dropping was authorized on political leaders.<br/><br/>Making an identical statement in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, the Home minister P Chidambaram gave an assurance that thorough investigations will be carried out by the appropriate agencies if any evidence is discovered on the phone tapping controversy. <br/><br/>The Speaker Mrs. Meira Kumar allowed senior BJP leader Mr L K Advani to speak during the question hour. Mr. Advani took a strong exception to the phone tapping controversy and pleaded for a stringent law to prevent the recurrence of such events in future.<br/>