NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 22: The Congress today took exception to K Subrahmanyam, head of the committee investigating the Kargil aggression, calling on the Prime Minister even before he had officially completed the report into the conflict.Senior Congress member Priyaranjan Das Munshi wanted to know the reasons for the delay in presenting the report of the Subrahmanyam committee that is going into the events leading to the Kargil conflict."The nation has a right to know if there were any lapses on the part of the intelligence," Das Munshi said.Defence Minister George Fernandes said the Government had not received the report and would only react after the conclusions drawn by the committee were made known.The Subrahmanyam committee was to have presented its report by December 15, but there had been no further information from the government on the status of the report, Das Munshi said.The truth on whether intelligence lapses had taken place would help prevent the recurrence of such an intrusion andwould serve as a morale booster for the armed forces, Das Munshi observed.Das Munshi's remarks on the delay in making known the Subrahmanyam committee's findings were supported by CPI(M) MP, Basudeb Acharya. Both parties were also critical of Subrahmanyam meeting the Prime Minister even before he had finalised the report, saying it was "not proper".
