New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday night talked to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram over the latest 2G controversy concerning a Finance Ministry note, which raises questions on his role.
Meanwhile, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee also talked to Singh over the issue.
Singh called Chidambaram and discussed with him the issue of the note on allocation of 2G spectrum.
According to sources, the telephone call lasted 20 minutes during which the Prime Minister is believed to have expressed full faith in the integrity of the former finance minister and that he was ready to say this.
The sources said the prime minister also counseled Chidambaram to be patient till he returns home from New York on September 27.
The "secret" note was not shown to him, Singh is believed to have told Chidambaram, who was the Finance Minister during 2G spectrum allocation.
The March 25, 2011 document on allocation and pricing of 2G spectrum broadly suggests that Chidambaram could have insisted that the valuable resource could have been auctioned at the time the spectrum was sold on a first-come-first-serve basis by former telecom minister A Raja, now behind bars.
The note submitted to the Supreme Court yesterday was written by PGS Rao, Deputy Director in the Finance Ministry, to Vini Mahajan, Joint Secretary in the PMO.
The covering letter to the note also said that Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had seen the note.
(With Additional Inputs from PTI)
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