THE BJP on Monday questioned the government's silence over a letter written to it by the Indian ambassador to US on some domestic firms being beneficiaries of illegal payments and asked why it was kept under wraps.
The letter dated May 12, 2009, written by Indian ambassador to US Meera Shankar to Principal Secretary to Prime Minister T K A Nair, names some
Indian companies which allegedly received illegal payments from US companies.
Some of the prominent Indian organisations named in the letter are Maharashtra State Electricity Board (which got payments from Mario Covino of Control Companies), Indian Railways (by Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation) and Central Insecticides Board (by Dow Chemicals).
