Senior Congress member appointed chairman of JPC | PC Chacko to head parliamentary panel to probe 2G scam
Congress old-timer PC Chacko, a four-time Lok Sabha MP, was Friday appointed as the head of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) that will probe the alleged finanical irregularities in the allocation of 2G spectrum – billed as one of the biggest scams in India.
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar appointed the 65-year old Kerala politician, who represents Thrissur constituency in the house, as the head of the 30-member panel, parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Kumar Bansal told reporters.
Senior Congress member PC Chacko was on Friday made the Chairman of the JPC on the 2G spectrum issue, setting in motion the probe into what the opposition is alleging as the biggest scam in independent India.
65-year old Chacko, who represents Thrissur in Kerala in the Lok Sabha, was appointed the head of the 30-member high level panel by Speaker Meira Kumar, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal told reporters.
The JPC, having 20-members from the Lok Sabha and 10 from the Rajya Sabha, came into being a few days back, ending three-months of deadlock in Parliament between the government and the opposition, which latched on to a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General late last year which spoke of a presumed loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore.
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