The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in its status report to the Supreme Court on Wednesday pointed finger at textile minister Dayanidhi Maran for sitting on Aircel’s application for 2G license and forcing it be sold to Malaysian company Maxis.

Union minister for textiles Dayanidhi Maran said during his meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday that he would resign “if push comes to shove”, sources said.

Mr Maran, who met Prime

Union Minister and DMK representative Dayanidhi Maran today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi.

It was not clear as to what transpired during the meeting which came ahead of the expected

Union minister and DMKrepresentative Dayanidhi Maran on Thursday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here.
It was not clear as to what transpired during the meeting which came ahead of the expected reshuffle of the Union Council of ministers and amidst doubts over his continuance in the Cabinet.

With the decks being cleared for the proposed reshuffle of the Union council of ministers, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi have begun appraisals of ministers and star

The Congress is on tenterhooks over the continuation of textiles minister Dayanidhi Maran as fresh revelations about his alleged role in the spectrum scam during his earlier tenure as communications minister surfaced, adding to the Opposition pressure for the minister’s resignation.

Stating that the continuance of Union textiles minister Dayanidhi Maran was “untenable”, Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary A.B. Bardhan on Monday demanded that the Prime Minister ascertain that the former was made to quit his post.

As the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) met on Tuesday to hear from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on its probe into the 2G scam, the panel is expected to call textile minister and DMK leader Dayanidhi Maran.

CBI on Monday recorded statement of former Aircel chief C. Sivasankaran in connection with its ongoing investigations in the second generation spectrum allocation scam during UPA-I regime.

Under attack for his alleged role in the 2G spectrum scam, union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran on Monday said he never forced Aircel founder C. Sivasankaran to sell stakes in his company.

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