PAC chairperson and senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi asked the government to come clean on how the audit report by the comptroller and auditor general was leaked to the media even before it has been tabled in Parliament.
The BJP and CPI(M) today attacked the government on the reported CAG findings on KG Basin gas contracts given to Reliance Industries (RIL), demanding the resignation of Union minister P Chidambaram and a probe into the leakage of the report as well as the charges.
PAC chairperson and senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi asked the government to come clean on how the audit report by the comptroller and auditor general was leaked to the media even before it has been tabled in Parliament.
"How was the CAG draft report leaked to the media? This is unprecedented. Has the government instituted an inquiry into the matter?.... This is a matter of privilege. The CAG report cannot be published before it is placed in the House," Joshi told reporters.
He said he is likely to move a Privilege Motion in the Lok Sabha on the issue.
Joshi insisted that since the government has not denied the contents of the report which have been carried in the media, the government should answer the charges.
The CAG report has alleged that between 2004-06, the petroleum ministry circumvented rules to allow Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Limited (PIL) to benefit at the cost of government's own financial stake in development of KG Basin, considered India's largest gas fields.
Joshi held then finance minister P Chidambaram and then petroleum minister Murli Deora responsible for this scam.
"Co-incidentally, then the finance minister was P Chidambaram. As home minister he has sent a wrong list of names (of India's most wanted living in Pakistan). Now questions are being raised about the manner of his election to the Lok Sabha. I strongly demand that he should be removed from the Cabinet," Joshi said.
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