Gurudas Dasgupta calls JPC report a farce

CPI MP Gurudas Dasgupta today claimed that the JPC report on 2G spectrum allocation which was 'undemocratically' released on Thursday was 'a farce and a fraud committed on democracy in the country'.
"The way the JPC report was handed over on Thursday defies all democratic norms and demeaned the prestige of the Parliament before the nation," Gurudas told a press conference here.
Gurudas said that he would talk to all the other parties except Congress to reject the report in Parliament, adding that a parallel report would be presented by him.
"I will talk to both BJP and Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee," he said.

The MP, also a member of the parliamentary panel, said JPC chairman and Congress MP P C Chacko had worked more as a Congressman and not as an impartial individual to come out with the truth, adding that the report was not released after reaching a consensus by the panel members.
The report gave a clean chit to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and then finance minister P Chidambaram and said both were misled by then telecom minister A Raja in the 2G spectrum allocation while mentioning that the CAG figure of a notional loss of Rs 1.72 lakh crore was false.

The JPC was formed by the government in 2010 after a series of Parliament adjournments to probe the alleged corruption in the allocation of 2G spectrum in 2008 at 2001 prices which caused to huge loss to the national exchequer.