Thursday, September 22, 2011: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has
called Home Minister P Chidambaram and is understood to have expressed
full faith in his integrity, amid a raging controversy over his stand on
2G spectrum allocation.
During a 20-minute call from Frankfurt where he made a overnight halt
on his way to New York, Singh discussed with Chidambaram the issue of a
10-page note sent to the Prime Minister’s Office(PMO) by the Finance
Ministry in March last.
The note that became public after the Prime Minister had left Delhi
on his foreign tour suggested that the scam could have been avoided if
the Finance Ministry, then under Chidambaram, had insisted on spectrum
allocation through auction. The Minister has since been under attack.
The Prime Minister is believed to have counselled Chidambaram”to be
patient”till he returns home from New York on September 27, highly
placed sources said.
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