New Delhi: Ahead of the expected Cabinet
reshuffle, BJP on Sunday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to
drop from his Cabinet Home Minister P Chidambaram and Telecom
Minister Kapil Sibal as they were facing allegations of wrong
doing.
"Prime Minister has made a clean image for himself,
but his Council of Ministers is corrupt. Prime Minister must
clean his Cabinet, and as the leader of group of corrupt
ministers he must show the door to those corrupt ministers,"
BJP spokesperson Syed Shahnawaz Hussain said here.
He said, "It is well known that the Rs 1.76 lakh crore
scam (2G spectrum allocation) had willingness of the then
Finance Minister(Chidambaram). Raja is out of Cabinet, he was
one part of it (allocation). Second part is Chidambram who is
still a minister. Country would like Prime Minister to take a
decision on him as well."
Targeting Sibal, Hussain said, "A private company
which was facing a penalty of Rs 650 crore at Rs 50 crore per
zone was reduced by Sibal to Rs 5 crore per zone. Who gave
Sibal the right to reduce Rs 50 crore per zone to Rs 5 crore?"
he asked.
Sibal has been accused of overruling his officers to
bring down a Rs 650 crore penalty on Reliance Telecom to Rs 5
crore for shutting down its rural telephony services .
Denying the allegations, Sibal in a statement on
Friday, described them as malicious, motivated and defamatory.
He claimed that all relevant rules were followed in deciding
the penalty amount.
PTI
