Hours after the court judgment acquitted all the accused in the 2G spectrum scam, the Congress demanded in the lok Sabha on Thursday that former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) chief Vinod Rai, on whose findings the telecom scam was largely based, should quit all his posts.
Participating in a debate on the Supplementary Demand for Grants in the lok Sabha, senior Congress leader Veerappa Moily said Rai should tender an apology to the country, resign from all posts he is holding and return all the awards received by him .
Trinamool Congress leader Saugata Roy sought that the former CAG chief should be probed on the issue.
A 2010 report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, when Rai was its head, had estimated that there was a presumptive loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the exchequer in the allocation of the 2G spectrum during the then UPA regime.
“Vinod Rai in anxiety gave an estimated loss in the 2G ... Now I think he has been awarded...You (NDA Government) have awarded him. I think all those awards he has to return. He has to resign from all those posts and tender an apology to the country,” Moily said.
He also demanded that the government bring a resolution rejecting the CAG report as “the nation’s economy or projections in the investment profile to the outside world have been severely damaged because of such irresponsible reports given by then CAG.”
“Bring a resolution rejecting the CAG report...Then you pass a resolution rejecting the report of CAG and say this is a report of CAG not my report,” Moily said.
lok Sabha Deputy Speaker M Thambi Durai was on the chair when Moily was speaking.
During the same debate, Roy said today is “a very bad day” for Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. “All the accused in 2G scam were acquitted. This was the on which Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Jaitley had built up their case about corrpution against the UPA Government but now seems the whole edifice has collapsed,” he said.