Where's the scam, Mr Sibal. It's in your imagination
One can pity Kapil Sibal. Given the thankless job of covering up the UPA's atrocious record on corruption, he has fallen back on the old political strategy of beggaring-thy-neighbour: if I can't improve my reputation, it's best to make my opponents look worse.
March 23, 2011 / 15:27 IST
By R Jagannathan
One can pity Kapil Sibal. Given the thankless job of covering up the UPA's atrocious record on corruption, he has fallen back on the old political strategy of beggaring-thy-neighbour: if I can't improve my reputation, it's best to make my opponents look worse.But he has failed miserably. First, he tried to give a clean chit to A Raja by claiming that no money was lost in the 2G spectrum scam. Now, with Raja in jail and his alleged partner - Sadiq Batcha - committing suicide (did he jump or was he pushed?), Sibal is looking distinctly foolish. His zero loss theory is in tatters.This has not stopped him from trying one more time. On Monday, he went to town claiming that the Tatas got a free ride at VSNL (now Tata Communications) since they failed to return the land belonging to that disinvested company, as per the terms set in 2002.By innuendo, if not openly, Sibal is trying to say that the NDA government under Atal Behari Vajpayee allowed the Tatas to benefit from the land without paying a rupee. In a March 15 internal note to the telecom secretary, Sibal says that "the divestment of VSNL does not seem fair and transparent." He went on and on.
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