Dr Subramanian Swamy, president, the Janata Party has deposed against P. Chidambaram, Minister of Home Affairs to prove his alleged complicity in the 2G spectrum case. He will testify again on January 7, 2011.
Prior to this, the CBI special court had asked Swamy to submit certified copies of the documents he planned to use to prove Chidambaram was a co-accused in the case.
Swamy has alleged that Chidambaram, who was the Minister of Finance at the time when A. Raja, former Minister of Telecommunications and IT, granted mobile permits to ineligible companies, was involved in giving these permits and that he endorsed Raja’s actions and decisions.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had alleged that Raja colluded with certain companies and granted them mobile permits in 2008 despite their ineligibility.
Meanwhile, Swamy said that Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh had stated on the floor of Rajya Sabha that spectrum prices were decided by the Ministers of Finance and Telecommunications as per a 2003 Cabinet decision.
Swamy added that he produced before the court documents from the CBI that highlighted that Chidambaram gave permission for allowing Unitech and Swam Telecom to sell their equity to Norway’s Telenor and UAE-based Etisalat, respectively. Swamy said that Chidambaram had disregarded a home ministry advisory and allowed the foreign companies to buy in the Indian companies, thereby compromising national security.
