New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had denied commenting over the charges of Ex-CAG Rai over the 2G, Coalgate and other scam during the regime of UPA.
In an event of celebration of the publication of a book which title ‘Strictly Personal: Manmohan and Gursharan’, Manmohan said, “I did my duty, I don’t want to comment on what other people say. I won’t comment further.”
The book had been authored by his daughter Daman Singh on Sunday.
Rai said to a leading magazine, “Integrity is not just financial; it is intellectual integrity; it is professional integrity. You have an oath of allegiance to the constitution and that is important.”
Over the question of Manmohan’s psychology considering that many revered him as an elder statement, Rai replied, “you cannot have the nation being subjugated to the state and the state being a coalition of political parties. The belief was that good politics makes good economics too. But does good politics mean just staying in power?”
He said, “In 2G and coal there is no way he (Singh) can shirk responsibility. In 2G all the letters written by (then telecom Minister) A Raja were to him and he was replying to those letters. I got no reply to any letter I wrote to him. On one occasion when I called on him, the PM said I hope you don’t expect a reply from me, whereas he was replying to Raja twice a day. So how can he be not held responsible for the onus of that decision?”
Bureau Report
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