Gurudas Dasgupta flays Chacko's remarks

CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta today flayed the stand taken by JPC Chairman P C Chacko over summoning of a minister or anyone to depose before it on the 2G issue.
"The JPC Chairman alone cannot decide if Raja (former telecom Minister) will come or not or Prime Minister will be invited or not. It is the collective wisdom of members of the JPC whether the Prime Minister should be summoned or not," he told reporters here.
Gupta's comments came in the backdrop of Chacko's remarks at the AICC briefing yesterday that JPC has passed that phase of anyone deposing before it and was in the process of preparing a draft report, for which committee had authorised its Chairman unanimously.

Chacko yesterday dubbed as a "political stunt" BJP leader Yashwant Sinha's demand that the Prime Minister appear before JPC.
Expressing displeasure over working of JPC, he said that as an investigative agency, its job was to find out what had gone wrong, how national interests had been affected, who was responsible and what is to be done in future to prevent wrongdoing.
"I do not think Chacko is doing his job well. It is most unfortunate," he said.

Gupta sought to know what investigation was to be done if JPC members were divided on political lines and if they were interested in covering up 'failures' of the government.

On the migrant workers issue, he alleged that the Centre is blind to their plight in other countries.
In Saudi Arabia there were fears that lakhs of Indians would lose their jobs with the implementation of its new labour policy and demanded to know what had been done to help them. "Government must take care of its own workforce whether in the country or outside the country," he said.