New Delhi, Nov. 16: Just two days after he was forced to resign from the Union Cabinet over his involvement in the 2G spectrum allocation scam, the former communications minister, Mr A. Raja, has been decisively nailed by the report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India tabled in Parliament on Tuesday.
The report found Mr Raja went all out to allocate 2G licences to new players in a process which “lacked transparency and appeared to have been done with the objective of favouring a few firms”.
The CAG has said that not only did Mr Raja ignore the advice of the finance and law ministries but of the Prime Minister as well to increase the throwaway price at which spectrum was allocated in 2008 to new telecom companies.
The report says Mr Raja also did not take into consideration suggestions by the then telecom secretary and member (finance) in the telecom department.