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Manmohan Singh warned me of harm: Baijal

| | May 26, 2015, at 11:20 pm
New Delhi, May 26 (IBNS): Adding more troubles for Manmohan Singh, ex TRAI chief Pradip Baijal has said the former Prime Minister had warned of "harm" if he did not cooperate with the policies that were being followed in connection with the telecom scam that had hit the UPA government.

Baijal had served as TRAI chief till 2006.

He told NDTV that the changes he recommended - ending a first-come-first-serve basis - were ignored, which allowed the fashioning, a short while later, of one of the country's largest corruption cases.

The 2G scam, allegedly masterminded by ex-minister A Raja, pertains to a biased distribution of mobile airwaves and operating licenses, in lieu of kickbacks, to telcoms that could have cost the treasury up to Rs 1.76 lakh crore in lost revenue, according to the government's auditors CAG.

Baijal has made several revelations in his book.
 

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