New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that his government was serious to bring all the unscrupulous elements to book regardless of their positions, an Indian daily reported on Wednesday.He was addressing at a roundtable with television editors in his home on Wednesday morning. Singh defended himself against accusations his government was a lame duck, saying it was trying to bring justice in some of the country’s biggest corruption scandals in decades.
“Whatever some people may say, that we are a lame duck government, that I am a lame duck Prime Minister, we take our job very seriously. We are here to govern, and to govern effectively. Tackle the problems as they arise and get this country moving forward,” he said.
The former Telecom Minister A.Raja of Manmohan Singh cabinet is facing corruption allegations for awarding illegal frequency allocation licenses to mobile companies, while the opposition parties have been criticising PM for not taking action against the elements invloved in the corruption.
Prime Minister during the meeting said there were complaints “from all sides” about the way former Telecom Minister A Raja had distributed 2G spectrum but he was “not in a position” to make up his mind if anything was seriously wrong.
Singh said he had made his concerns clear to A Raja on 2G spectrum allocation but was assured by Raja — “on the same day” — that he was doing nothing wrong and that his methods were “absolutely transparent”.
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