PC,Raja discussed 2G pricing

Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy Tuesday released a set of documents to prove that Union Home Minister P Chidambaram discussed with former Telecom Minister A Raja in May-June 2008 the issue of pricing of the 2G Spectrum at 2001 rates.

Releasing Finance Ministry documents dated July 4,2008,he said that Chidambaram,then the Finance Minister,and Raja had agreed upon fixing the pricing of 2G spectrum. The documents also show they discussed spectrum usage charge and also the pricing for 3G bandwidth,he said. The new 2G licences were distributed in January,2008 by Raja. I am releasing these documents to demolish any argument that meeting between Chidambaram and Raja did not take place. There is no ambiguity that they met, said Swamy,a petitioner in the case in the multi-crore scam.