Home minister P Chidambaram today attacked Murli Manohar Joshi, the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), saying the PAC’s draft report on his role in the 2G spectrum allocations was a distortion of facts.
“The draft report was a gross distortion of the note dated 15 January 2008, and mischievously said I had pleaded with the prime minister to treat the matter as closed. I am constrained to observe once again that even a person with average intelligence would have noticed the note did not deal with the entry fee at all. In fact, it did say so,” the statement added.
When asked whether Joshi was a person below average intelligence, he replied with a tinge of sarcasm that he was referring to himself. “I am talking about persons like me with average intelligence,” he said.
PAC, in the draft report, said then finance minister, Chidambaram, in his letter to the prime minister, had acknowledged spectrum was a scarce resource but made a unique and condescending suggestion that the matter be treated as closed.
