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Left asks for NDA dealings to be probed by Pathak

Source: PTI
November 18, 2005 15:28 IST
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The Left parties on Friday demanded that 'certain' oil contracts taken up during the National Democratic Alliance regime be brought within the ambit of R S Pathak Inquiry Authority, probing the Volcker Committee findings.

"There are certain large oil contracts taken up during the previous NDA regime, which are outside the purview of the inquiry ordered by the government. These should be brought within the ambit of the inquiry," Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat told reporters after a meeting of the Left Parties to chalk out a strategy for the winter session of Parliament, beginning November 23.

Karat, however, refused to elaborate on the oil contracts struck during the NDA rule. He said the Left Parties would raise these issues in Parliament, as also at the Left-UPA Coordination Committee meeting on Monday.

On November 7, the government had appointed a judicial commission headed by former chief justice of India R S Pathak, to inquire into findings of the Volcker report naming Union Minister K Natwar Singh and Congess party as beneficiaries in Iraqi oil deals.

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