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2G scam: JPC gives clean chit to Manmohan, Chidambaram

New Delhi:  After two-and-half years, a parliamentary panel today finally gave a clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P. Chidambaram of any wrongdoing while blaming former telecom minister A. Raja in



CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury said: “A contrived majority has been used to adopt the report based on false and prejudicial findings and facts.”

”The chairman in his behaviour was extremely pictorial and they had planned everything and on that basis of false majority adopted the report,” he said.

The adoption of the report ends a two-and-a-half year saga of charges and counter charges, boycotts and bickerings since the panel was set up March 4, 2011.

”We carried on despite the differences,” said Chacko.

The draft report, he said, had been circulated among the members five months ago but could not be adopted as the panel was divided over the issue.

Chacko said some members wanted the draft report to be further discussed citing shortcomings in the procedures but he did not allow it.