2G, Irresponsible explanation by Pronob Mukherjee.

Is the Finance Ministry engaged in mock exercises in running the Government?

If a Note ‘has no life’ why prepare it?

Dangerous precedent.

Any Policy decision can be dismissed on this ground.

The fact is that the Note says ‘The Minister has seen it’

It is also a fact that Chidambaram was present in the ‘No papers’ meet with PM and A.Raja as per the note by the Finance Ministry.

Is this also of no consequence?

Opening a can of worms,Pronob?

Finally Pronob has not denied the fact that the ‘Minister has seen the Document’

Original Note.

Please see my blog ‘The original Document’ filed under Corruption.

https://ramanan50.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/2g-note-by-the-finance-ministry-original-document/

NEW DELHI: In what could add to the discomfiture of the government, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has formally told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi that the ‘Office Memorandum’ from the Finance Ministry to the PMOon the 2G spectrum allocation was not the product of MoF’s solo effort but an inter-departmental exercise.In a four-page letter to Singh, delivered at the prime minister’s residence just when he landed in Delhi from Frankfurt on Tuesday night, Mukherjee said the document was drafted after detailed confabulations between his ministry, PMO, the Law Ministry, DoT and Cabinet Secretariat.

The minister recalled that the note was essentially a backgrounder on the spectrum issue for helping the government put up a coherent defence on the matter. He also noted that it was prepared in the backdrop of demands from the Public Accounts Committee to summon Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister and the Cabinet Secretary for explaining the role of the PMO in spectrum allocation.

The letter noted that 22 meetings were held between various departments and that Vini Mahajan, joint secretary in the PMO, participated in many of these deliberations. Through his letter, Mukherjee appears to be trying to blunt the claim that the Office Memorandum (OM) was prepared by the Finance Ministry to embarrass Home Minister P Chidambaram.

The OM had suggested that some decisive interventions by Chidambaram could have averted the 2G scandal. Mukherjee’s letter contradicts Congress’ and Law Minister Salman Khurshid‘s line that it was the handiwork of a junior official and that it had “no life”.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/2g-scam-2g-note-an-inter-department-affair-says-finance-minister-pranab-mukherjee/articleshow/10164250.cms