<p>"Mr Chacko is a senior and seasoned member of Parliament. And if he has any suggestions or observations to make about the PAC he should better write to us. I will take into consideration when such a communication reaches me," Joshi told reporters outside Parliament complex.<br /><br />He was reacting to questions on what he felt about Chacko's suggestion that PAC should confine itself to looking into the CAG report on 2-G spectrum allocation.<br /><br />Joshi has always maintained that PAC had wide-ranging powers which go beyond examining just the CAG reports on various issues.<br /><br />This had earlier caused some heartburn in BJP itself as his "proactive" approach to the 2-G issue was being seen within the party as weakening the fight for formation of JPC.<br /><br />The Parliament Accounts Committee, headed by the BJP leader, had called for deposition a journalist who wrote on 2G spectrum scam and editors of magazines which published the transcripts of telephonic conversations of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia with industrialists, journalists and politicians.<br /><br />The PAC is also set to call for examination Radia as also senior journalists whose conversations figure in the tapes.<br /><br />The formation of the JPC last month brought down the curtains on a three-month deadlock in Parliament between the government and the Opposition, which latched on to a CAG report on alleged irregularities in 2G spectrum allocations and pegged the presumptive loss to the national exchequer at Rs 1.76 lakh crore.</p>
<p>"Mr Chacko is a senior and seasoned member of Parliament. And if he has any suggestions or observations to make about the PAC he should better write to us. I will take into consideration when such a communication reaches me," Joshi told reporters outside Parliament complex.<br /><br />He was reacting to questions on what he felt about Chacko's suggestion that PAC should confine itself to looking into the CAG report on 2-G spectrum allocation.<br /><br />Joshi has always maintained that PAC had wide-ranging powers which go beyond examining just the CAG reports on various issues.<br /><br />This had earlier caused some heartburn in BJP itself as his "proactive" approach to the 2-G issue was being seen within the party as weakening the fight for formation of JPC.<br /><br />The Parliament Accounts Committee, headed by the BJP leader, had called for deposition a journalist who wrote on 2G spectrum scam and editors of magazines which published the transcripts of telephonic conversations of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia with industrialists, journalists and politicians.<br /><br />The PAC is also set to call for examination Radia as also senior journalists whose conversations figure in the tapes.<br /><br />The formation of the JPC last month brought down the curtains on a three-month deadlock in Parliament between the government and the Opposition, which latched on to a CAG report on alleged irregularities in 2G spectrum allocations and pegged the presumptive loss to the national exchequer at Rs 1.76 lakh crore.</p>