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Mamata Banerjee assures full support to Govt over 2G scam | Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday assured her full support to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at the Centre over the 2G spectrum allocation scam. Banerjee said that
she had no objection over the debate in the Parliament over the 2G spectrum controversy.
"If there are questions about functioning about the government, then there should
be discussions in the Parliament about the same. We do not have problems and we
want discussions for that. We were always with the Prime Minister, we are with
the Prime Minister and we will be with the Prime Minister," Mamata Banerjee told
reporters here today. "There is nothing new to say about it. I think we are first
party who went to meet the Prime Minister and extended our full support for him.
Even Pranab Da (Pranab Mukherjee) said that there should be discussion on the
whole issue. So, today's meeting was all about that," she added after meeting
Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee at his residence here. Pranab Mukherjee
said Mamata Banerjee has extended her full support to the Government on the whole
fiasco over the telecom scam in the Parliament, adding that she is ready to support
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh in whatever decision he takes. "Discussions are
required on the whole fiasco happening in the Parliament. For the same, I requested
her to meet and she came forward for that and listened to me. We discussed the
current situation in the Parliament," he added. Earlier on Friday, Pranab Mukherjee
appealed to all political parties to help end the deadlock over the 2G spectrum
allocation scam, saying the matter could be looked into by the Public Accounts
Committee of the Parliament. The 2G spectrum allocation has reportedly caused
an alleged loss of Rs1.76 lakh crores to the Government, the Comptroller and Auditor
General of India (CAG) has stated in a damning report. The report further states
that former Telecom Minister A. Raja had no apparent logical or valid reasons
to ignore the advice of the Law and Finance Ministries while allocating telecom
spectrum to several firms in 2007-08.
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