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Joshi calls for opposition meeting over CVC report deadlock
New Delhi, Aug 14: In another bid to break the week-long deadlock in Parliament over the CVC report on Kargil purchases issue, Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi has called a meeting of opposition leaders today to sort out the matter.
New Delhi, Aug 14: In another bid to break the week-long deadlock in Parliament over the CVC report on Kargil purchases issue, Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi has called a meeting of opposition leaders today to sort out the matter.
Joshi had separate meetings with Defence Minister George Fernandes and the Public Accounts Committee chairman Buta Singh, but there was little indication of an end to the stalemate.
Fernandes had offered to make a statement in Lok Sabha on Monday on the whole issue of withholding of top secret CVC papers from the PAC and other matters arising out of it.
The Speaker had chaired a meeting earlier yesterday of leaders of various groups in Parliament but the impasse continued.
Buta Singh, after his meeting with Joshi, stuck to his stand that "the PAC right from day one asked for the CVC report relating to Operation Vijay (Kargil conflict) deals. We never asked for report on any other defence deals."
"We had five meetings with representatives of the Defence Ministry who took the stand that the CVC report is marked secret and, therefore, not to be shown to the PAC", Singh said.
He said even Defence Minister George Fernandes had refused to give the report to PAC at a meeting convened by the Speaker attended by him and the Defence Minister.
He said the government should have stated then that there was no such CVC report.
Bureau Report
Joshi had separate meetings with Defence Minister George Fernandes and the Public Accounts Committee chairman Buta Singh, but there was little indication of an end to the stalemate.
Fernandes had offered to make a statement in Lok Sabha on Monday on the whole issue of withholding of top secret CVC papers from the PAC and other matters arising out of it.
The Speaker had chaired a meeting earlier yesterday of leaders of various groups in Parliament but the impasse continued.
Buta Singh, after his meeting with Joshi, stuck to his stand that "the PAC right from day one asked for the CVC report relating to Operation Vijay (Kargil conflict) deals. We never asked for report on any other defence deals."
"We had five meetings with representatives of the Defence Ministry who took the stand that the CVC report is marked secret and, therefore, not to be shown to the PAC", Singh said.
He said even Defence Minister George Fernandes had refused to give the report to PAC at a meeting convened by the Speaker attended by him and the Defence Minister.
He said the government should have stated then that there was no such CVC report.
Bureau Report