A political storm has already broken out with an agitated opposition alleging that the report on 2G is a "cover up" and has been prepared to give a clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram.
Political temperatures are high with former Telecom Minister A Raja claiming that all decisions on the 2G spectrum issue were taken in consultation with the Prime Minister and BJP accusing Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) Chairman P C Chacko of trying to save the government.
The opposition has been maintaining that the "deliberate leak" amounted to breach of parliamentary privilege and is seeking a probe into it.
NDA is angry over the draft JPC report on 2G scam, particularly the references to the former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and some other ministers in his government.
This might come in the way of passage of some key bills that UPA is hoping to push through during the remaining part of the session which is scheduled to end on May 10.
The issue of alleged interference by the government in the preparation of the CBI report on coal block allocation scam for the Supreme Court is another major issue on which the Left and the Right have made a common cause.
BJP has been demanding resignation of Law Minister Ashwani Kumar in the wake of reports that he had summoned the CBI chief after which the report on the scam was "toned down".
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