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Opposition has no grounds to boycott Chidambaram: Khurshid
Tuesday November 22, 2011 06:30:22 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
opposition has no "objective grounds or factual basis" to boycott
Home Minister P. Chidambaram in parliament over his alleged links
to the 2G spectrum corruption scandal, Law Minister Salman
Khurshid said Tuesday.
"I don't know (why they are boycotting Chidambaram). I am asking
them (opposition) and they are not able to explain what the reason
is," Khurshid told reporters here. Chidambaram laid the written
answer to the first question put to him on the first day of the
winter session Tuesday and as the house plunged into noisy scenes
Speaker Meira Kumar adjourned the sitting.
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Monday decided to boycott
Chidambaram for his alleged role in the 2G scam. It wanted his
role in allocation of spectrum probed as he was finance minister
in 2008. Former telecom minister A.Raja, his DMK party colleague
Kanimozhi and several others are in jail for their links to the
scam.
Khurshid said: "I don't think they have objective grounds to do it
or any factual basis. Even if we give them benefit of doubt that
they want to interpret a particular document or any event in a
manner that favours their point of view, I think it's a little bit
remote and involves a lot of imagination."
He was referring to a March 25 note to the Prime Minister's Office
(PMO) from the finance ministry headed by Pranab Mukherjee that
said the airwaves could have been auctioned in 2008 if
Chidambaram, who was then finance minister, had "stuck to his
stand".
The law minister said there are "many bills which are of high
value and importance in which there is adequate consensus
available but there may be others on which some more work needs to
be done."
"But that's all to be seen in the backdrop that we are going to
pass any legislation. First, we must be able to pass some
legislation that is important," he added.
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