New Delhi: A Raja continuous to whip up a storm today, claiming, "I did not seek to implicate the Prime Minister and the then Finance Minister in the 2G case." He also liable the media for "putting words in my mouth." Mr Raja has begun caring himself in court - he is accused of engineering India's largest scam by giving left telecom licenses for low prices to companies he favoured. Mr Raja was Telecom Minister till November when he resigned over charges of dishonesty and the 2G scam. He was arrested in February and has been in Tihar Jail since.
Yesterday in court, Mr Raja named the Prime Minister and P Chidambaram, who was Finance Minister in 2008 when Mr Raja allocated licenses to nine companies. He chose not to auction spectrum, opting as a substitute to follow a first-come-first-serve policy. Mr Raja said that the PM and Mr Chidambaram were aware that two companies who got licenses from him - Swan and Unitech Wireless - then sold fair play at huge profits to foreign partners. Both Swan and Unitech have been accuse of corrupt and plot, and their top executives are in jail with Mr Raja.
Minutes after declaring that he did not want to implicate Mr Chidambaram, Mr Raja seemed to do just that. "The then Finance Minister, an eminent lawyer himself, cleared the sale of equity by the two licensees. He's bound to come as a spectator at some point," he said.
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