JPC report on 2G to be submitted to Speaker tomorrow

The controversial JPC report, which had given a clean chit to the Prime Minister in 2G spectrum allocation scam, will be submitted to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar tomorrow.
Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) Chairman P C Chacko will submit the report along with the dissent notes given by six parties, which termed it as a "bundle of contradictions".
The report will be tabled in Parliament in the Winter Session likely to commence in the first week of December.
Chacko is learnt to have used his power to "edit" five of the six dissent notes to redraft the language which, according to him, was unparliamentary.

The dissent notes are a way to record members' objections to the findings and are appended with the final report when it is tabled.
The report was adopted on September 27 by a majority vote as two JD(U) members abstained from the meeting.

Eleven opposition members, including BJP's 5 and one each of BJD, TMC, CPI, CPI(M), AIADMK and DMK voted against the JPC report that accused then Telecom Minister A Raja of "misleading" the Prime Minister and "belying" the assurances given to him.
In its dissent note, BJP insisted that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and then Finance Minister P Chidambaram should have been asked to depose before the JPC.

They regretted that even though the main accused, Raja, had made several offers to depose before the panel, he was not allowed to do so.
"Government will be asked to table an action taken report on the JPC findings within three months of its presentation to the Speaker," Chacko said.