<p>It asked the BJP to first clarify on alleged allotment of government land to B S Yeddyurappa’s kin in Karnataka.<br /><br />“Before raising accusations against anybody, the BJP should look inwards. A piece of government land was allotted to a private company owned by Karnataka Chief Minister Yeddyurappa’s two sons during his chief ministership,” party spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed told reporters.<br /><br />“As long as the BJP does not give a clarification to this, they do not have the right to speak on such issues,” he said.<br /><br />He alleged that the chief minister was instrumental in getting the land registry done for the particular company which was formed just a month earlier. <br /><br />“It is strange that in May the company was formed and in June government land was allotted to it,” he said.<br /><br />Reports had it that a piece of land acquired from two people by the Bangalore Development Authority was later sold off to Yeddyurappa’s son and son-in-law.<br />The Congress also made it clear that the UPA would not take any action against Raja — at least for now.<br /><br />Raja’s take<br /><br />Responding to former telecom secretary D S Mathur’s charge, Telecom Minister A Raja said the official himself was part and parcel of all decisions on 2G spectrum allocation.<br />“Mathur was part and parcel of all discussions and decisions. The note and file were also signed by him on November 7, 2007,” Raja told reporters in Chennai.<br /><br />Raja said suggestions on likely availability of spectrum were also useful in arriving at the cut-off date of September 25, 2007, for allocation of the airwaves. He did not, however, specify who made the suggestions.<br /><br />Asked whether Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would ask him to resign, Raja shot back saying the question is “fictitious.”<br /><br />On the CBI inquiry into the spectrum scam, he said there was no probe against him.<br /></p>
<p>It asked the BJP to first clarify on alleged allotment of government land to B S Yeddyurappa’s kin in Karnataka.<br /><br />“Before raising accusations against anybody, the BJP should look inwards. A piece of government land was allotted to a private company owned by Karnataka Chief Minister Yeddyurappa’s two sons during his chief ministership,” party spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed told reporters.<br /><br />“As long as the BJP does not give a clarification to this, they do not have the right to speak on such issues,” he said.<br /><br />He alleged that the chief minister was instrumental in getting the land registry done for the particular company which was formed just a month earlier. <br /><br />“It is strange that in May the company was formed and in June government land was allotted to it,” he said.<br /><br />Reports had it that a piece of land acquired from two people by the Bangalore Development Authority was later sold off to Yeddyurappa’s son and son-in-law.<br />The Congress also made it clear that the UPA would not take any action against Raja — at least for now.<br /><br />Raja’s take<br /><br />Responding to former telecom secretary D S Mathur’s charge, Telecom Minister A Raja said the official himself was part and parcel of all decisions on 2G spectrum allocation.<br />“Mathur was part and parcel of all discussions and decisions. The note and file were also signed by him on November 7, 2007,” Raja told reporters in Chennai.<br /><br />Raja said suggestions on likely availability of spectrum were also useful in arriving at the cut-off date of September 25, 2007, for allocation of the airwaves. He did not, however, specify who made the suggestions.<br /><br />Asked whether Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would ask him to resign, Raja shot back saying the question is “fictitious.”<br /><br />On the CBI inquiry into the spectrum scam, he said there was no probe against him.<br /></p>
