Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has written a fresh letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the controversial note by his ministry that said the 2G spectrum could have been auctioned had the then finance minister P. Chidambaram acted, officials said on Wednesday.
A copy of the three-and-a-half page letter has been sent to Congress President Sonia Gandhi too, party sources said.
Officials in North Block confirmed that a fresh letter was written by Mukherjee, but said it merely states why the March 25 note of 18 paragraphs with a one-page annexure was sent, and on whose instructions.
"The note basically gave a chronology of events and the basic facts that related to the pricing and allocation of spectrum - things that were already known. This is what the FM (finance minister) has sought to explain," an official said.
However, there were different versions about the letter written by Mukherjee.
While officials in the North Block confirmed that Mukherjee wrote it on Wednesday, Congress sources said that a letter was handed over to Manmohan Singh when Mukherjee met him in New York on Sunday.
The controversial March note, signed by Pranab Mukherjee, says the 2G spectrum could have been auctioned and the government could have raked higher revenue if P. Chidambaram, the then finance minister, had acted.