Debate: Coal scam report buried?- 1/2

2012-08-09 16

It has been 87 days, to be precise, since the government has been sitting on the CAG report on the coal block allocations which claims an astounding loss of Rs. 1,00,000 crore, indirectly benefitting more than 150 private entitities. The opposition was up in arms in both houses of the Parliament. But the Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal repeatedly denied the report reaching his office and the Prime Minister vouched to quit his public life if the allegations were proved true. TIMES NOW is in possession on a letter which reveals that the CAG report was with the government 11 days before the budget session ended even as pressure piled on the government inside and outside Parliament.