This year several high profile ministers resigned, many were sent to prison but still, I believe, the title of most controversial politician of this year will go to P. Chidambaram, Home Minister, Government of India.
First his name gets dragged into the multi-multi-crore 2G spectrum allocation scam of India. It is alleged that he was involved in the 2G spectrum allocation scandal. Just when the opposition had started to cool down against him, a letter from finance ministry to the prime minister's office surfaced, that too when both the finance minister and the prime minister were not in the country.
The media had gotten over this incident when it was learnt that Subramanian Swamy has been asked to present his arguement before court as to why P. Chidambaram's role in the spectrum allocation case should be investigated.
Now as the year draws to an end, the news to hit the streets against the home minister is regarding his alleged misuse of office. It seems that minister used his position as home minister to get criminal cases against one his former clients to be withdrawn.
P. Chidambaram the name will go down history as the most controversial politician of 2011.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Fingers pointed at P. Chidambaram's role in 2G scam
Another embarrassing moment for the Congress led UPA government at the center in India.
This time a note has come forward. This note prepared by the Department of Economic Affairs, an office under Pranab Mukherjee, current Finance Minister of India, was sent to PMO on 25 March 2011. It has raised questions on the actions and inaction of P. Chidambaram, the then Finance Minister of India in connection with the 2G scam.
The note - an 11-page document - describes that the Finance Ministry had demanded that the 2G spectrum be auctioned. According to a report in the Times of India, the note says that P. Chidambaram had overruled the recommendations of the ministry - the Ministry of Finance - that demanded that 2G spectrum be auctioned.
The note, directly casts a shadow of suspicion on the role played by the then Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in the 2G spectrum allocation which is said to have caused a loss of Rs. 50000 crore to Rs. 1.76 lakh crore to the Indian exchequer.
The timing of this note becoming public could not have been worse for the ruling UPA coalition, whose credibility has been severely compromised in the past few months. The note was given by PMO to an RTI activitist in response to an RTI request.
This time a note has come forward. This note prepared by the Department of Economic Affairs, an office under Pranab Mukherjee, current Finance Minister of India, was sent to PMO on 25 March 2011. It has raised questions on the actions and inaction of P. Chidambaram, the then Finance Minister of India in connection with the 2G scam.
The note - an 11-page document - describes that the Finance Ministry had demanded that the 2G spectrum be auctioned. According to a report in the Times of India, the note says that P. Chidambaram had overruled the recommendations of the ministry - the Ministry of Finance - that demanded that 2G spectrum be auctioned.
"DoT could have invoked this clause (5.1 of the UAS license) for cancelling licences in case MoF had stuck to the stand of auctioning the 4.4 MHz spectrum," the note says.
The note, directly casts a shadow of suspicion on the role played by the then Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in the 2G spectrum allocation which is said to have caused a loss of Rs. 50000 crore to Rs. 1.76 lakh crore to the Indian exchequer.
The timing of this note becoming public could not have been worse for the ruling UPA coalition, whose credibility has been severely compromised in the past few months. The note was given by PMO to an RTI activitist in response to an RTI request.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Tihar Jail, Delhi - the address of some VIPs
It has been a bad year for the ruling UPA government in New Delhi.
1. It lost a lot of credibility, the way it handled anti-corruption campaigns of - Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdeo.
2. So many of its sitting MPs and former Ministers have been sent to Tihar Jail while cases against them are being investigated and await court trials. These are ...
1. It lost a lot of credibility, the way it handled anti-corruption campaigns of - Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdeo.
2. So many of its sitting MPs and former Ministers have been sent to Tihar Jail while cases against them are being investigated and await court trials. These are ...
A Raja - Former Telecom MinisterHe had to resign as minsiter and had been taken into custody by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Feb-2011 for his role in the multi-multi crore 2G scam.
Kanimozhi - Sitting Rajya Sabha MP of DMK and daughter of DMK supremo K. KarunanidhiSent to Tihar in May 2011 for allegedly taking a whopping bribe of Rs.214 crore in the 2G scam.
Suresh Kalmadi - Former Organizing Chairman, Common Wealth Games and Sitting Member of ParliamentOther high profile political inmates of Tihar Jail include...
Suresh Kamadi was sent to Tihar in May 2011 for his role in another multi-multi crore scam - the Common Wealth Games scam, that he is alleged to have masterminded when he was the chief of the organizing committee.
Amar Singh - Rajya Sabha MP and former prominent member of Samajwadi Party
Sent to Tihar in September 2011 - Although he is not a member of the UPA alliance in the center, he has been sent to custody in the connection to the case where he has been accused of allegedly providing the bribe-money in the Cash-for-Vote scandal that shook the country in July 2008.
Mahavir Singh Bhagora and Faggan Singh Kulaste - both former BJP MPs
Sent to Tihar in September 2011 - These are allegedly two of the three MPs who had been given the bribe by Amar Singh to abstain from voting during the trust vote of July 2008.
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