Why Chidu is Silent?
By siliconindia   |   Friday, 23 September 2011, 03:32 IST   |    10 Comments
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The allegation says that Chidambaram had a chance to intervene into the spectrum allocation to bring in more revenue to the government. The airwaves were allegedly sold at a very lesser price than their real value resulting in a loss of around 176,379 crores to government exchequer.
Swamy and Chidu
The note apparently sent at the approval of Pranab Mukherjee came to light as Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy presented it before the Supreme Court to prove a direct involvement of Chidambaram in the spectrum pricing. It was originally accessed by the RTI activist Vivek Garg from the the Prime Minister's Office. The letter was prepared by a deputy secretary in the finance ministry and sent to the PM's office on March 25. It reportedly quotes Chidambaram, after a meeting with A Raja, as saying, "He was for now not seeking to revisit the current regimes for entry fee or revenue share" of spectrum. A strong critic of the Congress party, Swamy has been fighting the legal battle for a CBI probe into the Home Minister's role in the 2G scam.

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