Pranab back in Delhi, will speak after PM returns

September 26, 2011 16:20

Just in: Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee is back in Delhi. Says he will speak after PM Manmohan Singh is back. Mukherjee has sought an appointment with Sonia Gandhi and could be meeting her anytime after 6 pm.

Mukherjee, who was in Washington for IMF and World Bank meetings, had to advance his departure from there for New York for the unscheduled meeting with Singh. The controversial note, prepared by a Finance Ministry official, had suggested that the 2G scam could have been averted had the Finance Ministry then headed by Chidambaram insisted on the auction route instead of the 2001 price for allotment of spectrum.

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