Jaya questions timing of Raja's spectrum scam charge

JAYA-RAJA

Chennai, Nov 2 (PTI) Questioning the timing of Indian IT
and Communication Minister A Raja's allegation of a scam in
spectrum allocation during the National Democratic Alliance
(NDA) regime, All India Anna Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam
(AIADMK) chief Jayalalithaa Monday wanted to know why Dravida
Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK)'s representatives in the Indian
Cabinet did not raise the issue then.

In a statement here, she wanted to know what Raja and his
then colleagues, including late Murasoli Maran and T R Baalu,
were doing when the Telecom Ministry of the NDA regime was
perpetrating the "Rs one lakh crore fraud on the nation".
"Why did not any of them protest? Why did they not at
least raise the issue at a Cabinet meeting? Why did they not
walk out of the NDA? By keeping silent, were they not guilty
of abetting the multi-crore scam?" Jayalalithaa asked.
By his charge now, Raja had "opened the doors of a new
closet from which hitherto well-hidden skeletons had tumbled
out and it is now up to the BJP leadership in the know of
things to confirm or refute this allegation," she said.
"...Raja, a lawyer by profession, should be aware that one
wrong does not justify another. A murderer, when trapped,
cannot get away from the long arm of justice by claiming that
someone else has committed murder as well and that person was
still at large," she said in apparent reference to charges of
irregularities in spectrum allocation under Raja's tenure. PTI
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