JPC on 2G today, will BJP do a boycott hat-trick?

October 18, 2012 10:46

The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) meeting on the 2G scam will be held in New Delhi today. Former Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar will appear before the panel as a witness. A big question mark looms over whether BJP members in the JPC will attend today's meeting as they have boycotted the last two meetings of the Committee. Their main demand is that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram to be called in as witnesses.

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