Congress, Left protest immediate taking up of discussion on the case on notice of BJD leader Bhartruhari Mahtab; AIADMK initiates debate.
Nobody, howsoever important, would be spared if found guilty in the Aircel-Maxis deal, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
“We have no holy cows to be protected,” Mr. Jaitley said while replying to the discussion on the case.
Demands for an urgent CBI inquiry into the issue was made during the discussion, with AIADMK members alleging involvement of Karti P. Chidambaram, son of former Union Minister P. Chidambaram, in the “shady deal” which they claimed had links with the 2G scam.
Participating in the special discussion, T.J. Venkatesh (AIADMK) also repeatedly referred to two former Union Ministers from the DMK and a former Finance Minister in the UPA-II by name but Speaker Sumitra Mahajan disallowed it.
Mr. Venkatesh regretted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power on the promise of unearthing black money, but his government was doing precious little to bring to book those behind the Aircel-Maxis deal which, according to the AIADMK member, “has deep roots in the infamous 2G scam, the biggest in independent India”.
Amid loud protests from the Congress and Left members, the debate was taken up with Ms. Mahajan saying she had got a notice of BJD leader Bhartruhari Mahtab for a discussion on the matter and she was allowing it.
The Congress and Left members were protesting against the immediate taking up of discussion on the Aircel-Maxis issue when the Motion of Thanks for the President for his address was still being debated by the House. Congress members were heard protesting the “match-fixing” between a section of the Opposition and the government.
The Congress and the Left members later staged a walkout when Mr. Venkatesh started speaking after Mr. Mahtab initiated the debate.
Mr. Mahtab claimed that no FIR has been lodged yet in the Aircel-Maxis deal and the CBI and the ED have not filed charge sheet so far, despite the fact that the money laundering trail in the deal has allegedly spread to 14 countries including British Virgin Islands.
Mr. Mahtab, who was interrupted sometimes even by Trinamool Congress’s Saugata Roy, wondered whether the BJP and the Congress were “doing a match-fixing” by ensuring no action in the deal allegedly involving some of the powerful people in the UPA-II.
The Speaker earlier allowed the discussion by overruling the points of order raised by Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge and Mr. Roy.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu made a strong pitch for such a debate noting that there were umpteen number of discussions on the Ayodhya issue and those related to Gujarat earlier despite the matters being sub judice.
Earlier, AIADMK MPs created ruckus in the Lok Sabha for the second day on Wednesday demanding action against Mr. Karti Chidambaram.
Source: PTI
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