A day after submitting a protest letter on Union minister Kapil Sibal’s comments on the CAG’s findings on the presumptive losses caused in the allocation of 2G spectrum, the CAG wrote a letter of request to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) urging it to summon the Union minister before the PAC and ask him to explain his statements. Mr Sibal had said the CAG’s conclusions on the loss to the exchequer being `1.76 lakh crore was “utterly erroneous”.
“The CAG, in a letter dispatched today, has requested the PAC to summon Mr Sibal as some of his comments are not in the proper light,” said a CAG official. The official confirmed that the letter contains objections to remarks by Mr Sibal and other Congress leaders alleging that the CAG went public with the report on November 16 when it should have been tabled on the floor of the House and gone to the PAC.
Mr Sibal had challenged the CAG’s report on the 2G spectrum scam, saying, “The Comptroller and Auditor General’s figure of `1.76 lakh crore is utterly erroneous. The losses were much lower and over `100 crore had been recovered after the government sent out notices.”
Mr Sibal, however, said he respected the CAG but was extremely pained at the methodology adopted by it in arriving at the 2G spectrum (loss) figures.