New Delhi, Sept 25:Fresh evidence has emerged that the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh failed to exercise any leadership during the murky episode involving the 2G spectrum scam, DNA reports.The report said, documents made available to DNA show that Manmohan Singh failed to act upon reams of advice sent to him by some of his seniormost cabinet colleagues.
The strongest warning to Singh had come from Pranab Mukherjee just a few days before the telecom spectrum was to be allotted.
Accessed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by RTI activist and advocate Vivek Garg, the two page note, marked 'Top Secret', warned the PM that any change in policy must be "done in a transparent manner and then follow the stated policy both in letter and spirit."
Mukherjee, who headed the Group of Ministers (GoM) on the allocation of 2G spectrum, was quite upset that the government was not doing so.
In no uncertain terms, Mukherjee told Singh that the "criteria for the grant of license may be strengthened and put in the public domain at the earliest." But none of that happened, and a few days later, the then telecom minister A Raja would allot the spectrum, creating one of the biggest scandals of independent India.
