New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi after surfacing of his letter which suggested his ministry's controversial March 25 note on 2G was revised after "consultations" with Cabinet Secretariat and the PMO.
Though it was not clear what transpired in these meetings, it is believed that the issue related to the September 26 letter written by Mukherjee to the Prime Minister figured.
The Congress, meanwhile, refused to be drawn into the issue but insisted there was no controversy.
"Circumstances surrounding the note have been discussed to death. We must keep in mind that the note is reiteration of what happened between December 2003 and February 2011.
"If at all there is any concern with regard to interpretation and sequence of the matter in the letter, then the judgement should be left to the JPC, which has a mandate to look into the entire gamut of the spectrum allocation from 1998 to 2009," party spokesperson Manish Tewari told reporters.
The Finance Ministry note of March 25 had suggested that the then Finance Minister P Chidambaram could have averted the 2G scam in 2008 if he had insisted on auctioning of Spectrum, triggering a huge controversy when it became public in September.
At the height of the row over his ministry's note, Mukherjee had written to the Prime Minister suggesting that the sentence which appeared to blame Chidambaram was "revised" after consultation with the Cabinet Secretariat and the PMO.
Tewari said the 2G issue has gone to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), Parliament's Public Accounts Committee and the Supreme Court after the reiteration of the developments between December 2003 and February 2011 appeared in the note.
"When you have a JPC, PAC and the court looking into the matter, rather than reading out judgements on an issue, allow the agencies to come out with their final findings," the Congress spokesman said.
Asked whether the JPC will be look into the latest letter of Mukherjee, Tewari said that in the "course of its deliberations, it is obviously going to look into these matters.
He, however, added "let us not come to premature judgements and allow the JPC to complete the probe".
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