Andimuthu Raja’s book on 2G scam is indeed a revelation. However, it’s
an exposure in the form of omissions. It has indeed opened a new Pandora’s Box
on the Rs. 176,000-crore scandal. But it also hides more than it discloses. The
book, for instance, delves into details of the pulls and pressures exerted by
COAI (controlled by Sunil Mittal), the powerful lobbying arm of the private
cellular operators, to influence, twist and manipulate the country’s telecom
policy. But it doesn’t describe the overarching role played by a Mumbai-based
business house, which has played several hands to deal the right cards to
decide the winners in the games to appoint key civil servants and ministers in
the telecom ministry. A reader gets no idea of the roles played by crucial
civil servants such as Nripendra Misra, former Telecom Secretary, Pulok
Chatterjee and TK Nair, ex-officials in the PMO, and Omita Paul, who was the
right hand of the former President, Pranab Mukherjee.
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