Digvijaya Singh, the Congress leader had sarcasm overflowing in his words while he lashed out at the governments own auditor CAG Vinod Rai questioning his estimates of the losses incurred by the 2G spectrum allocation in 2001.
He said, "The CAG should reconsider how far its estimate was right with regard to the report, which it had earlier given and the losses that it had computed," Singh said.
It is known that the much hyped event of the 2G spectrum auction that ended yesterday has failed to make decent gains on the auction as it ended at Rs 9407 crores against the expected Rs 20,000 crores.
Earlier CAG pointed out that in 2010 when A Raja, the then telecom minister, had sold the spectrum at rates fixed in 2010 on a first come first serve basis, it cost the national exchequer dearly with an estimated loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crores.
Mocking the CAG's report, he said, "the facts are before the nation and quite clear."
(AW- Anil)