New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday dubbed the arrest of former Telecom Minister A Raja as "too little too late" and demanded that others involved in the 2G spectrum scam should also be brought to book.
"The arrest is too little too late. It is very unfair to say that Raja alone had gulped Rs 1.76 lakh crore. Who are the rest of the people? BJP categorically wants to know that," BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said.
He said Raja's arrest was just beginning of an exercise.
"Please don't give credit to the government for the arrest. Government has to answer many questions before this finally comes to an end," he said.
He said, "Be it inside Parliament or outside Parliament, the Prime Minister should answer the questions of corruption."
The BJP however is still stringent on its demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC). BJP spokesperson Arun Jaitley said, that the JPC is required to investigate other matters of how the minister was appointed.
Arun Jaitley said that there are many issues that a JPC needs to look into. "Why was the Telecom portfolio kept only for DMK? Why within DMK it was kept only for A Raja? How and why some policies were framed? And the role of middlemen," he said.
He also said that the Prime Minister should not have lived in a denial mode and should have acted earlier. He said, "All this while the Telecom Minister and the Prime Minister kept on denying any wrong doing in the Telecom Ministry."
BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman maintained that though a "loot" of Rs 1.76 lakh crore had taken place in 2G spectrum allocation, the Prime Minister had remained silent.
"Our demand for a JPC probe has been vindicated," she said and held the Congress responsible for the "complete washout" of the Winter session of Parliament.
"The sheer arrogance and adamance of the Congress party is responsible for the wasting of the winter session," she said.
(With inputs from PTI)
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