Dec. 28: Ms Sushma Swaraj, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, termed as “entirely meaningless,” the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh’s letter to the PAC chairman volunteering to appear from the panel. Dr Joshi had said, in response to the PM’s letter: “We will take an appropriate decision at an appropriate time.”
“Under the Lok Sabha Rules, a PAC cannot call a minister, much less the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister’s offer (to appear before the PAC), therefore, has no meaning,” Ms Swaraj wrote.
The BJP said it will attend the meeting called by the Lok Sabha Speaker, Ms Meira Kumar, to break the logjam between the government and Opposition parties on the JPC issue.
The BJP on Tuesday reiterated its demand for a JPC probe.