New Delhi: The DMK it seems is still gunning for former Telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran as the party is reviewing BSNL's mega GSM deal, inked during Maran's tenure.
On Monday, Union IT and Communication Minister A Raja remarked that his predecessor Dayanidhi Maran had allowed BSNL to purchase equipment to provide 45.5 million cellular lines at a higher cost.
Meanwhile, reaping maximum benefit from these allegations, AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa on Tuesday said that DMK should explain why it was so late in reacting to the deal.
“So long as Dayanidhi Maran was in the good books of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, it was all right and his acts were not considered a crime against the nation,” Jaya said.
Now that he has fallen out of favour with Karunanidhi, DMK ministers are speaking about his actions, she said.
Raja, in an interview to a daily, had said that the Centre would not allow BSNL to go through the deal at the current rate, as it would cost the exchequer Rs 10,000 crore more.
If BSNL went ahead with tender in the current form and awarded contract to the lowest tender, it would be paying close to Rs 10,000 crore more unnecessarily, he had said.
Jayalalithaa also did not spare the Chief Minister on the Cauvery water-sharing issue.
The AIADMK supreme alleged that Karunanidhi had time to go to Bangalore for rest, but not to meet Karnataka Chief Minister D Kumaraswamy to request for release of Cauvery waters to Mettur Dam.
“It is disgraceful that Tamil Nadu has such a Chief Minister, who does not do his duty,” she said.
(With agency inputs)
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