2G Spectrum Scam: Dayanidhi Maran resigns from Cabinet, will fly to Chennai today!

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NDTV Correspondent, Updated: July 07, 2011 13:52 IST.

New Delhi:  Dayanidhi Maran today ended days of national speculation by meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and handed him his resignation from his post of Union Textile Minister. The CBI had said in court yesterday that it had evidence against him in the telecom scam. 

On his way to the PM's 7 Race Course Road residence, the DMK leader had already taken the red beacon off his car. He drove straight in, held a short meeting with the PM and then left without speaking to the media waiting outside. (Read: Who is Dayanidhi Maran?)
Earlier this morning, Mr Maran pointedly attended a Cabinet meeting. Sources said attendance was high - virtually every minister was present- and that no reference was made to the allegations made just 24 hours ago against Mr Maran by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Mr Maran, who is Textiles Minister, was the first to leave when the meeting ended a little after noon.  

Good to hear that; even otherwise he would have been sacked!

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2G Spectrum Scam: Dayanidhi Maran offers to resign!

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NDTV Correspondent, Updated: July 07, 2011 13:38 IST.

New Delhi:  Dayanidhi Maran today ended days of speculation by meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and offering to resign from his post of Union Textile Minister. 

On his way to the PM's 7 Race Course Road residence, the DMK leader had already taken the red beacon off his car. 

Earlier on Thursday, amid national speculation about whether he would be asked to resign, Mr Maran attended a Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's residence. Sources said attendance was high - virtually every minister was present- and that no reference was made to the allegations made just 24 hours ago against Mr Maran by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Mr Maran, who is Textiles Minister, was the first to leave when the meeting ended a little after noon.  

Mr Maran stepped out of the meeting for a few minutes when the Cabinet discussed issues related to FM licenses. He was recusing himself because of a potential conflict of interest - his brother, Kalanidhi, owns the Sun TV network which includes radio stations.

The CBI yesterday said in a Delhi court that early evidence suggests that Mr Maran misused his office when he was Telecom Minister to force the sale of Aircel to an industrialist close to the Maran family.

If he has any propriety, he would have resigned the moment hard evidence is being published in connection with his gross misuse of establishing a private BSNL network, a Fibre Optics Network and also of his forcing Aircel's former owner to sell his shares to his company of choice from Singapore, which in turn got all the Telecom licences.

Offering to resign has no meaning as anyway whether the UPA PM would drop his or not, with the CBI Chargesheet getting ready, he would be forced to be out of the Union Ministry, by the Courts!!

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DAYANIDHI MARAN: Will examine unauthorised laying of fibre cable network - Jayalalithaa!

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. File photo - PTI.

The cable network was laid when Mr. Maran was the Telecom Minister from 2004 to 2007

In the wake of reports that a fibre cable network has been laid from the residence of Dayanidhi Maran to Sun TV office in Chennai, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa said she would get the matter “thoroughly examined” and take necessary action.

“I came to know from media reports that optic fibre cables have been laid in an unauthorised manner from the house of Dayanidhi Maran to Sun TV office in Chennai. Today I am busy with the Planning Commission meeting. As soon as I return to Chennai, I will get this matter thoroughly examined and take necessary action,” the AIADMK chief said.

The report said the cable network was laid when Mr. Maran was the Telecom Minister from 2004 to 2007.

Under CBI scanner

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In another statement, she also repeated her demand that Maran be dropped from the Union Cabinet!

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UPA Liability: Maran's Skeletons - Now will you accept it as wrong, Mr Maran?!

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S Gurumurthy Last Updated : 09 Jun 2011 07:03:51 AM IST / EXPRESSBUZZ.COM

‘I had only one BSNL line – 24371500 – and no other in my name or home at 3/1 Boat Club Avenue. The New Indian Express story of 323 lines is false. Why didn’t they get the facts from BSNL?’ yelled Dayanidhi Maran on June 2, 2011. The New Indian Express nailed his lie in less than 36 hours. The BSNL website itself showed, not one, but two numbers at Maran’s home – 24371500 in CGM BSNL’s name and 24371515 in Maran’s name. The BSNL letter of 6.4.2009, citing which Maran had lied that he had only one line – 24371500 – given to him as MP, proved to be worthless. The evidence now obtained from BSNL has turned out to be a devastating one against him. The new evidence irrefutably proves that Maran did have and operate, at government’s cost, the secret home exchange of 323 lines. BSNL has admitted that it had to “suppress” this fraud, after he ceased to be minister. The evidence – Office Note of BSNL Chennai circle dated 21.6.2007 – nails all his lies. 

Maran resigned as Telecom Minister on 13.5.2007. Two weeks later, on 28.5.2007, a request was made to BSNL to convert the two numbers, 24371515 and 24371616 “working for the former Minister” Maran – to MP quota. It is this request that made the BSNL spill the beans on its file not only about the explosive truth of the 323-line home exchange, but also about its secret structure.

First, the BSNL Note says: “no information” was “available about these numbers” – 24371515, 24371616 – with Public Grievances Cell or computer cell. The officer had therefore, “to contact” Mambalam exchange “for details of these numbers”. Why were these numbers hidden from the Mambalam exchange? No answer. That these numbers were not with the computer cell or with Public Grievances cell gives clue to the fraud. It meant that they had been kept out of the exchange system itself; and they constituted a secret exchange with ‘2437’ as the common exchange code. How would the secret exchange work? Like this. If a subscriber in a BSNL exchange needs attention, he will dial ‘1191’ after dialling the exchange code. For the Maran home exchange, all calls for attention to 23471191 would get automatically diverted to 24311191.This was intended to keep the very existence of the exchange and the code ‘2437’ secret.

No, he would deny till his last breath!  Otherwise he wouldn't be an Indian Mantri.

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UPA Liability: Maran's Skeletons - Minister steals a telephone exchange, loots BSNL!

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S Gurumurthy Express News ServiceLast Updated : 02 Jun 2011 09:49:50 AM IST.

CHENNAI: Indeed a shocking, daring robbery. A telecom central minister from Tamil Nadu got the BSNL to connect 323 telephone lines to his home, not in Delhi where he had work, but in Chennai where he had none. He got all the 323 home lines listed not in his name but in the name of the Chief General Manager BSNL Chennai. These lines virtually constituted a telephone exchange in the minister’s home. It was exclusively used for his family business by laying 3.4 km long secret cable along public roads to connect the lines to the business premises. This had caused huge loss to BSNL. Who was that enterprising minister? The infamous A Raja? No. It is the famous Dayanidhi Maran; Raja’s predecessor, now the central Textile Minister. The CBI, which probed the fraud, wrote to the Secretary Telecom on 10.9.2007 recommending action against Maran for the fraud.

01)  Why UPA failed to take appropriate legal action in 1007 itself?

02)  Does it expect Centre for Public Interest Litigation or some other pubic spirited body or individual to move Courts for action??

03)  Do we still need a Coalition Government which in the name of 'Coalition Dharma' have been redefining the probity in public life?

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