JPC Report on 2G Tabled in Lok Sabha Monday Dec 09,2013

The report of the 30-member Joint Parliamentary Committee, headed by P.C. Chacko, that went into allocation and pricing of telecom licences and spectrum, was tabled in the Lok Sabha on Monday Dec 09,2013 amid protests by the -

• BJP
• TMC and 
• Left Parties

 as Speaker Meira Kumar refused to allow any objection or discussion at the presentation stage

Ruling out any discussion at the presentation stage, Speaker Meira Kumar referred to the request already received from Yashwant Sinha (BJP), Gurudas Dasgupta (CPI) and Kalyan Banerjee (TMC). She said: “There is no provision in the rules which permits discussion or raising of objections before presentation of a report which has been duly adopted by a JPC.” 

DMK members led by T.R. Baalu, who too have been demanding discussion on the issue, came to the well and shouted slogans before walking out in protest against the Speaker’s decision

The Opposition members wanted to record their objections regarding the alleged violation of some rules during the deliberations in the JPC. 

Later, Mr. Chacko presented the JPC report to the House.

Congress MP PC Chacko speaks in the Lok Sabha during ongoing winter session at Parliament house in New Delhi on Monday Dec 09,2013

Note

The JPC Report on 2G, which was made public on September 29,2013 when it was given to the Speaker by Mr. Chacko, contains as many as seven dissent notes given by members of the BJP, the CPI(M), the CPI, the DMK, the AIADMK, the Trinamool Congress and the BJD

The JPC Report exonerated Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P. Chidambaram of any wrongdoing. It said Dr. Singh was misled by the then Communications Minister, A. Raja, about the procedure to be followed by the Department of Telecom regarding issuance of UAS licences.