A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanded the resignation of home minister P Chidambaram over a finance ministry note suggesting complicity by Chidamabarm (who was then the finance minister) in the 2G scam, the Congress urged for patience, saying the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe would get to the root of the matter.
Late on Thursday, after the Congress and the government had rallied around the beleaguered home minister, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had categorically said he continued to repose confidence in Chidambaram. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee declined to comment, saying the matter was "sub-judice". The Congress, too, cited the same reason.
Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari on Friday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of "seeing ghosts and phantoms were none existed".
