Dr Swamy seeks PM’s sanction to prosecute Home Minister P Chidambaram

Dr.Subramanian Swamy has sent during the last 6 months, more than half a dozen letters to our Prime Minister and inviting his kind attention to the patently  unbecoming and untenable conduct of the Union Home Minister P.Chidambaram. Dr.Swamy has also taken it to the notice of the Prime Minister that the Union Home Minister P.Chidambaram’s manner of functioning poses a grave threat to our National Security and our very survival as a Nation.

Today (22-3-2011) Dr.Subramanian Swamy has sent the following letter to our Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh, seeking his sanction to prosecute the Union Home Minister P.Chidambaram u/s IPC  120B  r/w Sections 11, 12 and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act. I am giving below the full text of this letter.

                                                                                      March 22, 2011.

Dr. Manmohan Singh,
Prime Minister as
Designated Authority, u/s 19 of the
Prevention of Corruption Act (1988)
South Block,
New Delhi.

                                    Sub:- Sanction to prosecute Union Home Minister
                                              Mr. P. Chidambaram.

Dear Sir,

            I write to seek Sanction to Prosecute your Home Minister Mr. P. Chidambaram  u/s IPC  120B  r/w Sections 11, 12 and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act for the reason of his conspiring with A. Raja, former Minister, to defraud the nation and malafide failing to protect national interest in the 2G Spectrum licensing, and as follows :
[1] According to the decision taken by Cabinet in 2003, the pricing of Spectrum was to be decided by the Minister of Communications and Information Technology and the Minister of Finance.

Hence, in the 2007-08 2G Spectrum allotment, Mr. A. Raja and Mr. P. Chidambaram had decided to fix the combined entry fee and Spectrum price per mhz at the price discovered in 2001. This was in violation of the TRAI recommendation of  August 28, 2007, which required the entry fee to be separated from spectrum price, and be determined according the market conditions prevailing then. This would have meant an entry fee of several multiples of the 2001 price.

By failing to separate the entry fee and spectrum price, and fixing the combined price at the 2001 level, Mr. Raja and Mr. Chidambaram, despite knowing of the TRAI recommendations and of your letter to Mr. Raja dated November 2, 2007, not only thereby conspired to bring about a loss to the nation of Rs. 1, 76, 000 crores or thereabouts in revenue [according to one estimate of the CAG] but willfully violated Section 11 of the TRAI Act (1997) which required that TRAI recommendation if it is to be flouted then the DoT must first refer the recommendation to the TRAI for a review.

The fact that the two Ministers together decided that the price of spectrum and entry fee should be lumped together at the 2001 level and decided against the market price of the 2007-08 period for the entry fee, is confirmed by your own speech in Rajya Sabha on February 24, 2011 wherein you have said: “…the then Finance Minister…consulted with the Minister, Telecommunications and the two Ministers worked out an agreed formula on the spectrum charges, which was reported to me in a meeting on July 4, 2008.”[Annexure A from:
 www.pmindia.nic.in/speech/content4print.asp?id=1028].

[2] There has been for sometime a Home Ministry Advisory that in the national interest no foreign investment or financial participation should be permitted in which Etisalat or Telenor are parties [Annexure B]. In case of the then Vice Chairman and MD of the Etisalat DB, Mr. Shahid Balwas , the Home Ministry Advisory was even more graphic—that no project should be permitted in which Mr. Balwas is associated in any way.
Yet, as Home Minister, Mr. P. Chidambaram failed to advise the DoT of this Advisory and permitted the infusion of large equity financing in two licenced companies Swan and Unitech leading to the change of their names to Etisalat DB and Uninor. This is a reckless disregard of national security and his oath of office whereby the national integrity has been seriously jeopardized.

[3] Mr. Chidambaram is also actively involved in obstructing justice in the prosecution of the 2G Spectrum criminal case which is likely to go to trial soon. In Aman Hotel, a luxurious hotel in which Ms. Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra owns a big stake, Mr. Chidambaram regularly confabulates with a senior Law officer, a telecom and conglomerate business tycoon [who is affected if the licences are cancelled and/ or the trial is held fairly], and others to determine how to sabotage the criminal and other cases in the 2G spectrum matter. Considering that this hotel in next to the CBI / RAW building, such blatant confabulations are intriguing. Mr. Chidambaram’s son Karthik has also emerged as a liaison person for Home Ministry purchases with the help of one Major Hooda and Lt. General Tejinder Singh. Considering intelligence inform about proclaimed offender Dawood Ibrahim and Shahid Balwas has leaked leading to the arrest of a Joint Secretary in the Home Ministry, this nexus is ominous.

Hence, it is clear and obvious on the face of the above listed facts that a prima facie case of commission of criminal offences by Mr. P. Chidambaram, presently Home Minister, is made out for you to grant me Sanction to prosecute him in a court of law as a co-accused with Mr. A. Raja..

                                                                        Yours Sincerely

                                                                        Subramanian Swamy        

OUR PRIME MINISTER SHOULD ISSUE ORDERS IMMEDIATELY GIVING PERMISSION TO DR.SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY TO PROSECUTE THE UNION HOME MINISTER P.CHIDAMBARAM. DR.SWAMY HAS CLEARLY BROUGHT OUT THE FACT THAT THE FORMER UNION TELECOM MINISTER A.RAJA (NOW  LODGED  IN TIHAR JAIL BY A COURT OF LAW)  AND THE UNION HOME MINISTER P.CHIDAMBARAM ARE TWO DISGUSTING SIDES OF THE SAME SONIA CORRUPTED COIN OF 2G SPECTRUM GARGANTUAN SCAM.

Three years ago when Dr.Subramanian Swamy wrote to our Prime Minister seeking his permission to prosecute former Union Telecom Minister A.Raja under the Prevention of Corruption Act, our ‘Know Nothing’ and ‘Do Nothing’ Prime Minister slept over Dr.Swamy’s Letter for more than 2 years till the final intervention of the Supreme Court of India! Now let us earnestly hope that our Prime Minister will not treat today’s letter from Dr.Subramanian Swamy seeking Prime Minister’s permission to prosecute Union Home Minister P.Chidambaram with the same contempt as he had treated the earlier letters from Dr.Subramanian Swamy relating to the former Union Telecom Minister A.Raja!

More than 100 important citizens in India are watching the response of the Prime Minister to the request made to him by Dr.Subramanian Swamy today. If the Prime Minister continues to remain decided only to be undecided, resolved only to be irresolute, Sonia-adamant for Dr.Manmohan Singh drift, solid only for fluidity and all powerful only to be impotent, then these leading citizens of India would definitely file a Public Interest Litigation in the Supreme Court of India to get their due justice under the law.

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