Pranab likely to meet Sonia over 2G note
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday in the face of a controversy over his ministry's note to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) on 2G spectrum allocation, party sources say.
Congress sources said Mukherjee, who returns to New Delhi Monday afternoon from the US, is expected to apprise Gandhi about the note that has sparked renewed opposition demands for Home Minister P. Chidambaram's resignation.
Mukherjee, who was in Washington for IMF and World Bank meetings, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New York Sunday in the backdrop of the row created by the note.
Following the meeting, Mukherjee Sunday said Chidambaram was a 'valued colleague'.
The note to the PMO from the finance ministry says that the airwaves could have been auctioned in 2008 if Chidambaram, who was then the finance minister, had 'stuck to his stand'.
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