2G: PM, Pranab speak to Chidambaram

New Delhi, Sept 22 (PTI) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee spoke to Home
Minister P Chidambaram over phone amid a controversy over his
stand on the allocation of 2G spectrum.
Chidambaram said on Thursday he had assured the Prime
Minister that he shall not make any statement on the subject
until he returns to India. Singh is due to return home from
New York on September 27.
"I have assured the Prime Minister that I shall not make
any public statement on the subject until he returns to
India," Chidambaram said in a statement in response to queries
from media about his silence on the Finance Ministry note to
Prime Minister's office on 2G spectrum submitted to the
Supreme Court on Wednesday.
"...the Prime Minister called me last night from
Frankfurt and spoke to me. The Finance Minister called me from
Washington and spoke to me," said Chidambaram, who held the
Finance portfolio when the Telecom Department took a decision
to allot 2G licenses.