Pranab, Chidambaram meet Sonia Gandhi

UPA chair person and Congress President Sonia Gandhi today stepped into the 2G spectrum row by meeting Home Minister P Chidambaram and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. There are unconfirmed reports that Home Minister had offered to quit.

Mukherjee saw Gandhi shortly after his return from New York where he had met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against the backdrop of the raging controversy over a Finance Ministry note which suggested that Chidambaram when he was the Finance Minister in 2008 could have prevented the 2G scam if he had insisted on the auction of the spectrum. The note has angered the Home Minister.

As the intense effort to defuse the crisis continued, some media reports suggested that Chidambaram had offered to step down but there was no authentic word on it. Chidambaram had publicly stated a few days back that he would not speak on the controversy till the Prime Minister returns from the US. The PM is due to return home tomorrow.

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