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Raja ready to depose before JPC

New Delhi, February 23
Blamed for a number of issues in the 2G scam, former Telecom Minister A Raja wants to appear before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) as a witness to tell his side of story.

Raja's request to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar comes days after Attorney General G E Vahanvati blamed him for various issues before the JPC.

He has also been blamed for the 2G scam by other witnesses before the special CBI court. Raja met Kumar at her office yesterday and handed over a letter expressing his willingness to appear as a witness dbefore the committee.

DMK members in the JPC TR Baalu and T Siva had been pressing Chairman PC Chacko to call Raja as a witness. — PTI

The 2G Tale

• DMK members in the JPC TR Baalu and T Siva had been pressing Chairman PC Chacko to call Raja as a witness.
• They also want that Vahanvati should be called again before the panel after he told the JPC earlier this month that the controversial press note regarding 2G licences was changed at the last minute by Raja in 2008 with a different pen. Vahanvati was then the Solicitor General.
• Chacko is apparently against calling Raja as a witness.