Congress Party chief Jairam Ramesh. File.
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The Congress on April 27 stated the BJP’s “hypocrisy knows no bounds” and alleged that whereas it referred to as the administrative allocation of 2G spectrum underneath the UPA a “scam”, the Narendra Modi authorities was now seeking permission from the Supreme Court to “give away spectrum” with out an public sale.
The opposition celebration’s assault got here after the Centre on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking modification of its verdict in the 2G spectrum case which stated the State was responsibility certain to undertake the public sale route whereas transferring or alienating the nation’s pure sources.
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Attacking the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress normal secretary Jairam Ramesh stated, “The hypocrisy of the ‘Modi Sarkar’ and ‘Bhrasht Janata Party’ knows no bounds. During Dr Manmohan Singh’s tenure, they cried to all who would listen that the administrative allocation of 2G spectrum was a ‘scam'”.
“Now, they are arguing the opposite – they have gone to the Supreme Court for permission to give away spectrum to whoever they want, without an auction,” he alleged.
“Of course, this ‘Modani Regime’ has already been handing over public resources to the PM’s crony capitalist friends – airports have been handed over to one company, coal mines have been given away in fraudulent auctions, and even satellite spectrum has been handed over in exchange for Rs 150 crore in electoral bonds. In total, they have already handed out Rs 4 lakh crore worth of public resources to their corporate donors,” Mr. Ramesh additional alleged.
He stated that on June 4, India’s voters will present this celebration of “organised loot” the door.
The counting of votes of the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections, polling for which started on April 19, will probably be taken up on June 4.
The INDIA bloc authorities will launch a joint parliamentary committee on the “‘Adani Mega Scam’, and investigate these other corrupt practices, including the ‘Pay PM scam’ in which the PM amassed Rs 8,200 crore through his well-documented ‘chaar raaste’ of collecting funds”, the Congress chief stated.
He claimed that the BJP’s 4 strategies of amassing funds had been “pre-paid bribes: ‘Chanda Do, Dhanda Lo’; post-paid bribes: ‘Theka Lo, Ghoos do’; post-raid bribes: ‘Hafta Vasooli’; ‘farzi companies'”.
In its judgement delivered on February 2, 2012, the Supreme Court had quashed 2G spectrum licences given to numerous corporations in the course of the tenure of A Raja because the telecom minister in January 2008.
On Monday, Attorney General R Venkataramani, showing for the Centre, talked about an interim utility earlier than a bench of Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice J B Pardiwala.
While seeking pressing itemizing of the appliance, the highest regulation officer informed the bench that the plea seeks modification of the 2012 verdict because the Centre wished to grant 2G spectrum licences in some instances.