{"id":26993,"date":"2013-02-28T13:33:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T08:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=26993"},"modified":"2013-02-28T13:33:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T08:03:21","slug":"rajas-letter-to-pm-not-based-on-discussion-with-me-ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/rajas-letter-to-pm-not-based-on-discussion-with-me-ag","title":{"rendered":"Raja\u2019s letter to PM not based on discussion with me: AG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here in Delhi court \u00a0the\u00a0Attorney General G E Vahanvati told that former Telecom Minister\u00a0<a title=\"A Raja\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/topic\/person\/a-raja-profile-61846.html\" target=\"_blank\">A Raja<\/a>\u2018s letter to the Prime Minister regarding the DoT\u2019s policy to be adopted for 2G spectrum allocation was not based on discussion with him and the then External Affairs Minister\u00a0<a title=\"Pranab Mukherjee\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/topic\/person\/pranab-mukherjee-profile-3153.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pranab Mukherjee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He said the contents of Raja\u2019s December 26, 2007 letter to the PM regarding discussion with him as the then Solicitor General and Mukherjee on the policy were \u2018not correct\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is wrong to suggest that what was communicated to the Prime Minister as future course of action was based on the discussion with the then Minister for External Affairs (Mukherjee) and me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe contents of this letter to the effect that \u2018the discussions with the Minister for External Affairs and Solicitor General of India have further enlightened me to take further preemptive and proactive decisions on these issues\u2019 are not correct,\u201d Vahanvati, who was deposing as a witness in the 2G spectrum case, told Special Judge O P Saini during his cross examination by Raja\u2019s counsel Sushil Kumar.<\/p>\n<p>On being shown an annexure appended to the letter by Special Public Prosecutor U U Lalit, Vahanvati clarified that the issues mentioned in it were not discussed in the meeting in the first week of December 2007 with Mukherjee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish to clarify that the issues mentioned in the annexure to this letter were not discussed with the then Minister for External Affairs during the meeting as referred to by me above. I also wish to add that what is being referred to in this annexure as being concurred by me had not been concurred by me,\u201d he told.<\/p>\n<p>Vahanvati\u2019s statement assumes significance as the CBI, in its charge sheet, had alleged that Raja had written the letter to the PM on December 26, 2007 and had \u201cintentionally and deliberately misrepresented the facts about first-come-first serve policy\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in Delhi court \u00a0the\u00a0Attorney General G E Vahanvati told that former Telecom Minister\u00a0A Raja\u2018s letter to the Prime Minister regarding the DoT\u2019s policy to be adopted for 2G spectrum allocation was not based on discussion with him and the then External Affairs Minister\u00a0Pranab Mukherjee. 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