2G verdict: SC quashes
122 licenses
Looting of public
money continued unabated in India since the independence, and there was
absolutely no resistance to it. The congress party with absolute power did
whatever it wanted to do and public sufferings went on without break. Illiteracy
was allowed to continue deliberately for the very purpose of vote bank policy. Things
started moving when BJP could manage to establish itself to confront the
congress party at the center, and now we all see how exchequer’s money was
wasted to satisfy some selfish corrupt leaders of the congress party.
The Supreme Court
verdict today has made it clear that the government executives do have the
mandate to do whatever they like. Now that all 122 telecom licenses would be
quashed as per the Apex Court judgment; the government would certainly have to
answer many questions that the main opposition BJP has raised. This UPA II
government with its head the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could not find
anything wrong in the act of A Raja, the then telecom minister, who arbitrarily
given the licenses for his personal benefit and the benefits of others. He is
in jail on the basis of findings by the Apex Court, but there are other players
in the government who could be indicted in the same charges as that of Raja. The
judgment has been pronounced by a bench of SC comprising Justices G S Singhvi
and A K Ganguly today, which also mentioned contain the indifferent way of
working by the CBI as well as Chidambaram’s (the then finance minister) role in
the 2G spectrum allocation. The SC has given the trial court to take a decision
on this matter. Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy and NGO CPIL made the
appeal to the Supreme Court about three years back.
The companies that
would be affected most by the cancellation of licenses are Uninor, Loop
Telecom, Systema Shyam, Etisalat DB, S Tel, Videocon, Tatas, and Idea. Affected
telecom industries may be bringing sentimental issues mentioning huge users and
employees, but those should not be accepted at any cost. They have gone through
wrong practices and must be penalized heavily. The PM and the Congress
President Sonia Gandhi must clarify the government stand in the wake of SC
judgment in the 2G spectrum allocation scam.