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The Volker controversy has come to the limelight on the eve of the submission of the report by Justice Pathak.

In the justice Pathak report on Volker controversy, notice a few points below. (Note that these are the points noticed off the cuff, a detailed reading may reveal few more like this)

1. The committee itself says in its report that it is unable to investigate enough to see whether Congress party was involved.
2. It says the name of Congress party must have come because Natwar must have given such an impression.

Now we must question why the committee was unable to investigate enough? The reason is that the committee was not given enough powers to do so. They were constrained in the sense that the report and the investigations were purely based on the documents that were submitted to the Pathak committee voluntarily. The onus was on the ruling parties to allow the committee to investigate to the extent required to bring out all the involved people. But they did not choose to do so.

Secondly, the committee is making a guess that the Congress party was named because Natwar must have given such an impression. How did the Pathak committee read the minds of Iraqi officials?

Now Natwar says he and the congress party are inseparable. He says how congress can escape by making him a scapegoat? In this regard he must be allowed to make his case. He must be allowed to say whether the Congress party was also a beneficiary of the scam. And the investigators must be given a free hand to bring all the culprits to the court of law.

Congress party is trying to escape saying that “An eminent former chief justice headed the committee. He has completed the investigation in a reasonable quick time. It is not fair on the opposition to question the ability & sincerity of the justice”. But when the committee itself had limited power offered, whom should we blame that for?

# posted by ananda k s @ 1:47 AM