Who is spectrum raja

A CAG report said allocation of coal blocks without auction to companies for captive mining had led to a presumptive loss of up to Rs 1. Manmohan Singh had held the charge of coal minister too. On its part, the Congress said BJP-run state governments in the concerned states had also been represented on the screening committees, and that they too did not want auction as it would push up the cost of power. While there were some convictions in the coal blocks allocation case—former coal secretary H.

Gupta and two other bureaucrats were convicted, as also Dilip Ray, minister of state in the coal ministry in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government of —special CBI judge O. Saini in acquitted all the accused in the 2G spectrum case, saying the prosecution had miserably failed to prove its case. In September , the Supreme Court cancelled of the coal block allocations since , when captive mining was liberalised.

However, the impact of the CAG reports and media discussions on the scams was huge. Singh—all except Hazare became politicians soon—led the protests on the streets, then Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj spearheaded the push against the government in Parliament.

The tense years had their lighter moments too, as Swaraj and Manmohan Singh exchanged couplets to bring the temperatures down. This correspondent remembers one such exchange in Those times saw the emergence of a culture of public protests—which one sees even now, in the ongoing farm agitation.

Anti-corruption activists became full-fledged politicians, and the negative publicity of the Congress created a national void that was filled by the BJP under Modi. India Against Coruption became a turning point as people began to talk about governance.

Leaders became not simply givers of entitlements, but objects of interrogation. Edit Profile. Subscribe Now. Your Subscription Plan Cancel Subscription. Home India News Entertainment.

HT Insight. My Account. Sign in. Today, India is growing at its average post-reform rate, not at the bubble rate. This is not the hallmark of a failed finance minister but of a successful one. There are several lessons in Jaganmohan Reddy's arrest and detention in judicial custody. It seems to show that the politics of vendetta has reared its ugly head. That he is a free man - at least tentatively - should come as a birthday-week gift, but his political kingdom appears to be in telecom scam-induced tatters.

Andimuthu Raja, former telecom minister who allegedly orchestrated arguably the biggest scam in independent India's history, was granted bail on Tuesday. Caught between regulators, courts and the government, India's telecom sector is a battered thing, far removed from its heydays a few years ago.

Kanimozhi will have to spend Diwali behind bars after a Delhi judge said he would decide on her bail plea on November 3, even though her bail application was not contested by the CBI.

Kapil Sibal, the present telecom minister and Trai have both argued, correctly, that all measures of the so-called loss to the exchequer were notional.

Why weren't members of all parties and activists invited when the govt sat down with Hazare's team months ago? After being charged in the 2G investigations, Kanimozhi may have to get set for a fight within her family. The average Chinese trusts her government even less than we trust ours.

It is. Batcha was considered a crucial link in the money trail of the alleged kickbacks that were paid by some telecom players for securing 2G licences. The CBI also plans to question Kanimozhi, a step that will lead the investigators right to the doorstep of the DMK patriarch, who will face assembly elections in just a few weeks.

A Raja's rise in politics and stints as a central minister coincided with miraculous prosperity for his friends and relatives back home. The sudden convulsion against corruption is politically motivated, but there is at least one major thing politicians can do to clean up most of the mess.

TRAI had asked the govt to cancel 62 of the licences issued by A Raja under controversial circumstances in to telecom operators. Have you read these stories?

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