New Delhi, April 30: Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairperson Murli Manohar Joshi Saturday said he was hopeful that Speaker Meira Kumar would accept the report on 2G spectrum despite it being rejected by majority of the parliamentary panel members.
“We hope the speaker will accept the report and table it in parliament,” the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) told reporters, soon after submitting the draft report on the 2G spectrum allocation to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar’s office.
The term of Joshi-headed panel expires Saturday.
He said the PAC reports cannot have notes of dissent and the members, who rejected it, had no authority to do so. “This is wrong to say that 11 people have rejected it. That is unconstitutional.”
Joshi said the PAC was functioning according to its constitutional terms and conditions and the “highly empowered committee (to oversee government spending) cannot be run on party lines”.
“The people of this country have a right to know about the government’s expenses and spendings. The PAC has the duty to trail the money – where it came from and where it went,” he said.
—–IANS—-