Digvijay Singh questions credibility of CAG report on 2G scam

New Delhi, Nov. 15 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh on Tuesday claimed links between Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) and questioned the latter's report on the 2G spectrum scam.

Lashing out at PAC chairman and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Murli Manohar Joshi, he said Joshi had contacted CAG office before the reports on the 2G spectrum scam were out. "What was the reason for his calling up the CAG office before the report was even put up to the Parliament or to the Finance Minister of the government. I think these are some of the questions, which they have to answer," said Digvijay Singh.

"Ultimately, it has been proved and it is on record now. The Right to Information act is something which now exposes everything. So it is on record now that the PAC's chairman's office did contact CAG office before CAG submitted the report," he added.

Digvijay Singh also questioning the credibility of the CAG report. I have questioned the credibility of the CAG report, which has been exposed now that Mr. R P Singh, who was directly of the telecommunication ministry, he was asked to sign on the last page without going through the report. Why was it done? These are some questions which have now come to the notice in the public domain and I think CAG must answer this," he said.

Meanwhile, CAG Vinod Rai today appeared before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) along with Deputy CAG Rekha Gupta.

Rai had earlier written to JPC Chairman P C Chacko and requested the presence of R P Singh, former Director General, Audit (Post and Telecommunications), during his deposition.

RP Singh, one of the key auditors of the 2G spectrum report, on Monday told the JPC that the presumptive loss of 1.76 lakh crore was a 'mathematical guess'.

The telecom scam, one of India's biggest graft cases ever, may have cost 39.57 billion dollars in revenue to the public exchequer as per the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG).

Former Telecom Minister A. Raja was sacked in November last year and later arrested after being charged with giving away telecom licences in 2008 for a pittance, at meagre prices of 2001 in the CAG report. (ANI)