Govt will have to give 'action taken report' on PAC report: MM Joshi

PAC chairman Murli Manohar Joshi today said the government will have to submit an action taken report on the draft report prepared by him on the second generation mobile telephony spectrum scam.

"The future of the report is bright. The report is now with the speaker. It is taken to be presented before the house. The government will have to give a action taken report on it," Joshi told a press conference.

Noting that it was entirely wrong to say that his report was rejected by the majority of the members, he said after the PAC meeting was adjourned some members had raised dissent once they came to know that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the then finance minister P Chidambaram and some officers were named in the report.

"Such dissent is invalid as it was raised after the meeting was adjourned. Besides, the report has no note of dissent. What they have done is a tamasha (joke)," he said.

Referring to the 'election' of Saifuddin Soz to chair the meeting which 'rejected' the report, Joshi said, "No Rajya Sabha member can chair the PAC."

On the Congress demand for removal of Yashwant Sinha from the PAC, Joshi said, "He is not a member of the new committee. He was a member of the old PAC."