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The government's side, led by Union Finance Minister and Leader of the Lok Sabha Pranab Mukherjee, proposed a multi-disciplinary probe into the 2G case alongside a review by the Public Accounts Committee. The Opposition, however, insisted on a JPC and rejected the government's proposal for attaching multi-disciplinary probe teams with the PAC to look into the CAG report.
After the hour-long meeting, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had called leaders of all parties to discuss ways to end the logjam over the 2G probe because of which Parliament has remained paralysed ever since the winter session began on November 9.
During the meeting, the government proposed that the teams of multiple agencies probing the 2G scam could be attached with the Public Accounts Committee, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said.
This was rejected by the Opposition parties in unison as they stuck to their demand for JPC, she said.
"We said that we will not accept (the government proposal)," Swaraj said, a view echoed by representatives of other Opposition parties who attended the meeting.
The meeting ended, as the first one had last Tuesday, with Mukherjee promising to get back after consulting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Monday's lunch diplomacy was decided at a meeting by the Congress core committee on Sunday. Among those who attended it were Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Home Minister P Chidambaram, Defence Minister A K Antony and Mukherjee. The lunch is at 1 pm.
Last Tuesday too, Mukherjee had offered lunch for a solution to leaders of all parties but failed to come up with anything on how to end the daily stalemate at Parliament on the nature of the probe in the 2G spectrum scam.
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Why none of the national media mentions the involvement of media people in the 2G scandal?
No lunch is free!
No one in this Govt., including Manmohan Singh, can take any decision without the knowledge and approval from Sonia Gandhi. How can one believe such a big scam would have happened without her blessings for such a long time. Whether and what percentage of this has been contributed to Congress coffers or to GANDHI family needs to be investigated also. Why people are silent about it ? And she is the person talking about corruption and clean public life . What an irony ? The mother of all scams should be identified, who so ever it is, and punished .
India need proper law and order to tackle corrupt & treacherous population, greed for money and lust for power.
Congress had been benefited all these years.It is proved by the magnitude of corruption and mismanagement being exposed with the passage of time. Bad Luck for Congress. Each person in congress is earning huge amount by hook or crook.
1.27 lacs cr rs and 10 % to Man Mohan Singh = Silient PM
All the three tall leaders of BJP have serious charges against them. BJP if it is really honest should fire this so called fake leaders and save the nation.
u are stupid and idiot. Sonia and Congress are destroying this county but idiots like u will not understand.
Modi is one of the HONEST & ABLE ADMINISTRATORs of India.He doesnt have a single corruption charges against him & that's one the reasons why Guj is flourishing. Dont unnecesarrily bait him & bosst his image. Mr.Advani resigned as an MP & never stood in Loksabha election tll he could clear his name in Jain Hawala case, that too his name figured in one of the diaries.. had the politicans been like him today, India would have reached great heights... Go ask your Sonia Mata, how much she got from 2g & cwg scams first..
Clearly, the government is in a BIG mess. Wonder why they are avoiding the JPC if they are clean. It is high time the Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi took some bold steps. The country has completely lost their faith in the government.
A lunch to wash away the sins of 1.75 K Crores? Congress must be kidding.
MPs are enough money to arrange for their own food,finance minister may come out with a possible solution other than food. we want to know why manmohan singh is silent?? is he too involed in this, seems the silence is a sysmbol of acceptance.