Monday, December 20, 2010

Why Bihar Connection in Radia Tapes Being Ignored?

Opposition parties are intriguingly ignoring Bihar connection in the Radia Rapes.  Nitish Kumar is reported to have avoided a wedding in the family of Rajya Sabha member N K Singh. 
Singh, a former secretary in the finance ministry, apparently calls petroleum minister Murli Deora ''incompetent'', and refers to civil aviation minister Praful Patel as having ''worked as a minister for (Jet Airways founder) Naresh Goyal.''
Singh is the son of late T.P. Singh, who was in the erstwhile Indian Civil Service and was the son-in-law of one of the richest zamindars of Purnea. The MP’s sisters — Krishna and Radha — are IAS officers.

Singh also says surface transport minister Kamal Nath ''is literally on the road'' - referring to the fact that Nath got only the roads portfolio and not shipping, which went to G K Vasan.

Singh, who is deputy chairman of the Bihar Planning Commission, talks in detail about the ''spectacular decline of Kamal Nath''.

''He is on the road... literally on the road... well you can always hide it by saying highways are after all one black point of the government and they want to make up for it. But I think there is much more than meets the eye ... in Kamal Nath's case enough is enough ... and I do not think right now he needs another ATM. He has one going on for many years and that is enough for him,'' Singh is heard saying.

Meanwhile, in the matter of telecom scam that got revealed through Radia tapes, Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D. Raja also said the opposition will pursue its demand for the JPC probe into the telephony spectrum allocation of 2008, an issue that led to parliament's winter session being washed out to anti-government protest by MPs.
"PM has again ruled out any constitution of JPC. I don't understand why. Why is he making it such a contentious issue. The JPC will go into the depth of this scam. I don't think PAC can be better than JPC," Raja said.


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