The crucial sitting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee slated to be held on Monday to adopt its controversial draft report on the 2G scam has been postponed in view of the National Integration Council (NIC) meeting.
“...The sitting of the JPC...Scheduled to be held on September 23, 2013 has been postponed due to specific requests received from some of the members on account of pre-occupation with other important engagements, including meeting of the National Integration Council on the same date,” a notice circulated to the members on Friday read.
Panel chief PC Chacko said the next date of the meeting will be announced at the earliest. The meeting is expected to be stormy as it has to adopt the controversial draft report which gave a clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram, but had indicted former Telecom Minister A Raja for the 2G scam.
Battle lines have been drawn for the meeting as BJP and left members are all set to oppose the draft report by either giving strong notes of dissent or even demanding a vote. The JPC has not met for a variety of reasons since April when the draft report was circulated to the members. Its last meeting took place in February this year.