BJP wants JPC probe in 2G, CWG, Adarsh scams

 With an indication that the government might agree to a JPC probe in the 2G spectrum scam, the BJP today said bunglings in CWG projects and Adarsh housing too should be bought under the panel's ambit.

"We demand a JPC not only for probing specifically the 2G scam, but the whole issue of corruption," BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman told newspersons here after a meeting of the party's national office-bearers.

 

Making a strong demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into corruption allegations in the Commonwealth Games projects, 2G spectrum allocation and the Adarsh Housing Society, BJP had led the Opposition attack against the government in Parliament during the Winter Session, which was a washout.

A JPC is necessary to probe all corruption charges," Sitharaman said, alleging that the UPA government was mired in corruption.

She said the meeting, attended by L K Advani, Nitin Gadkari and Arun Jaitley among others, discussed the issue of corruption at length and felt that in spite of steps by the CBI in some cases, corruption continued unabated.

The meeting also discussed the issue of black money stashed in foreign banks and described as "half-hearted" the government's efforts to bring it back, she said.

She said the Prime Minister should answer why India was not signing the UN Charter on Corruption, which could have made it easier to get information from different countries about the ill-gotten money alleged to have been stashed.