The top leadership of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party is yet to close ranks on whether the probe into the telecom spectrum allocation controversy is best done through a Jopint Parliamentary Committee, the official stand, or through Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
PAC chief Murli Manohar Joshi, a past head of the BJP, has already begun his probe. More, he’d stated yesterday — a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made an unprecedented offer to appear before the panel — that such an inquiry could go well beyond whatever the Comptroller and Auditor-General had reported. This is, more or less, what the ruling Congress party has been saying in declining a PAC.