New Delhi: Former Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) chairman Pradip Baijal has alleged that former prime minister Manmohan Singh looked the other way when the 2G spectrum scam happened.
Hitting out at Singh in a tell-all interview to CNN-News18, Baijal said, “It all happened under Manmohan’s watch. It is unfortunate that fabricated evidence was planted against me because I didn't comply with the UPA government.”
Baijal said the rot set in when Dayanidhi Maran was the Telecom Minister. “Maran often called himself the Prime Minister of Telecom. He treated the ministry as his personal fiefdom. Then CAG Vinod Rai was not aware of the facts of the 2G case.”
The TRAI ex-chief also claimed that former finance minister Pranab Mukherjee had officially complained that his ministry was being ignored in decision-making in the Telecom Ministry.