New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has trashed the draft JPC report on the 2G spectrum case and will most likely present its own report on the probe panel's findings, sources said on Tuesday. The sources said that the main opposition party will seek rejection of the draft report.
The JPC is expected to meet on Thursday to consider the draft report.
Speaking to reporters, BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said, "We disagree with this draft report. It's a political document not based on facts. It's a untrue report and it should not be adopted."
The BJP leader's reaction came even as JPC Chairman PC Chacko denied reports that he had mentioned former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's name in the report. Apparently seeking to pacify an angry BJP, Chacko said, "We have the highest regard for Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This report has not mentioned the name of Vajpayee. We have not made any reference to the former Prime Minister," Chacko, who is also the Congress spokesperson, told reporters at the AICC briefing.
His remarks have come at a time when moves are afoot to bring all non-Congress members on the JPC together as part of plans to defeat the report, which has given a clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram in the whole issue.
The clarification by Chacko from the party podium was made on a day, when the Opposition upped the ante for the resignation of the Prime Minister on the coalgate issue, which was summarily dismissed by Sonia Gandhi. Amid Opposition closing in the ranks against him on the JPC report, Chacko denied that JPC reports are decided by the game of numbers saying there has been a precedents of adopting the reports with dissenting notes. "I am sure that some dissenting notes will come and I welcome that," he said.
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