New Delhi: Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam on Monday sent a legal notice to former Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Vinod Rai, who had accused him of trying to influence the 2G spectrum scam in a TV interview last week.
Rai had alleged that Congress leaders, including Sanjay Nirupam, Sandeep Dikshit and Ashwani Kumar, had applied pressure on him to keep former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s name out of his audit reports in the 2G scam.
Nirupam had rejected the allegation as an ‘outright lie’. “Rai has told an outright lie. I never talked to him. I challenge his memory and want to remind him that I never met him,” Nirupam said last week.
Vinod Rai’s explosive claims, to be soon published in a book by him called ‘Not Just An Accountant’, reject Manmohan Singh’s stand that he was not fully aware of the dealings in his government that resulted in huge loss to the public exchequer and became one of the main reasons of the Congress party’s humiliating defeat in Lok Sabha polls earlier this year.
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