New Delhi:Andimuthu Raja, a lawyer turned politician, who weathered the storm of controversies ranging from spectrum allocation to issuance of new licences, is back in the prestigious IT and Telecom Ministry for the second successive term.
Raja took oath as a Cabinet Minister today at Rashtrapati Bhawan.
The earlier low-profile minister of environment in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government shot into prominence at the Centre when a family feud in the patriarch K Karunanidhi's family forced the then Telecom and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran out of the ministry two years ago.
Raja, after joining the high-profile ministry took decisions that set off a storm of controversies starting from new licences to a host of players to reaching the stage of 3G spectrum auction and then deferring it.
Raja had to take maximum flak for an allegation that he has given away spectrum, the precious radio waves required for mobile services, at throwaway prices. So much so that he had to face a rigorous campaign that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh does not want him in his Cabinet.
In his second stint, he will also face a daunting task of replicating the success of mobile telephony in the urban India to rural areas.
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