2G verdict a slap in Centres face

HYDERABAD: Terming the Supreme Court’s judgment on the 2-G telecom spectrum allotment scam as a befitting lesson to the central government, the Telugu Desam has welcomed the cancellation of 122 licences issued after 2008.In a statement issued here on Thursday, party president N Chandrababu Naidu said the apex court’s verdict was a slap in the face of the central government.What the TDP had been telling the people on the 2-G, Commonwealth Games, Adarsh Society and other scams proved right with the judgment of the court, Naidu claimed and demanded that it was high time the Centre brought an effective Lokpal to crub corruption.At a press conference, party MP MV Mysoora Reddy said Union home minister P Chidambaram did not get any relief from the court’s verdict and the case was being heard by a trial court. The apex court did not say that Chidambaram was clean. He should resign on moral grounds, he demanded.Reddy recalled that he had written to the prime minister on the 2-G scam in 2009. The prime minister should answer the public at least now after the cancellation of the licences by the apex court. The corporate houses too should take it as a lesson and not think of making windfall profits, Reddy cautioned.