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Solicitor-General offers to quit, Law Minister rejects it

New Delhi, July 9
In a surprise development, Solicitor-General Gopal Subramaniam today offered to resign, apparently upset over a government move to hire a private lawyer to represent the Telecom Ministry in the 2G scam case. 

Subramaniam is understood to have spoken to Law Minister Veerappa Moily to make the offer of resignation, but the latter rejected it, sources said here.The Solicitor-General had in November last year come under fire from the government after the Supreme Court asked it to file an affidavit on alleged “inaction” by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in preventing the then Telecom Minister A Raja from allocating 2G spectrum in a controversial manner. — PTI