(June 14, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Saturday sought a CBI enquiry against the PMK and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) chiefs S Ramadoss and Thol Thirumavazhavan respectively for their reported meetings with the LTTE financier Kumaran Padmanathan in Thailand in January 2008.
Briefing reporters here, Swamy said a CBI team was now in Germany to seek banking details of Kumaran Padmanathan.
‘The CBI should enquire why Ramadoss, GK Mani and hirumavazhavan met him’, he said.
Swamy demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should sack the Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram for his inability to control the rising inflation.
Recalling the AIADMK supremo’s demand on Chidambaram’s resignation, he said that the Finance Minister had failed to give an answer regarding Participatory Notes.
He also said that the Tarapore Committee appointed by the Finance Ministry had recommended that Participatory Notes be abolished in the national interest and financial stability.
On the Sethusamudram Shipping Channel Project (SSCP), Swamy referred to a newspaper report which spoke about faster container movement between Tuticorin port and Bangalore by rail.
‘This would be an alternative and a more viable project than the SSCP which I had suggested earlier,’ he added.
At the same time he condemned the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) for giving approval for deepening the channel and basin at Tuticorin port at a cost of Rs 538 crore.
‘Being the Harbour Basin area with rocks, how could the dredging to be done,’ he wondered.
On price hike of petroleum products, he suggested, by comparing retail selling prices in Delhi, that the abolition of additional Excise duty, education cess and State sales tax would bring down the prices drastically, say petrol by Rs 20-25 per litre.
- Sri Lanka Guardian
Briefing reporters here, Swamy said a CBI team was now in Germany to seek banking details of Kumaran Padmanathan.
‘The CBI should enquire why Ramadoss, GK Mani and hirumavazhavan met him’, he said.
Swamy demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should sack the Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram for his inability to control the rising inflation.
Recalling the AIADMK supremo’s demand on Chidambaram’s resignation, he said that the Finance Minister had failed to give an answer regarding Participatory Notes.
He also said that the Tarapore Committee appointed by the Finance Ministry had recommended that Participatory Notes be abolished in the national interest and financial stability.
On the Sethusamudram Shipping Channel Project (SSCP), Swamy referred to a newspaper report which spoke about faster container movement between Tuticorin port and Bangalore by rail.
‘This would be an alternative and a more viable project than the SSCP which I had suggested earlier,’ he added.
At the same time he condemned the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) for giving approval for deepening the channel and basin at Tuticorin port at a cost of Rs 538 crore.
‘Being the Harbour Basin area with rocks, how could the dredging to be done,’ he wondered.
On price hike of petroleum products, he suggested, by comparing retail selling prices in Delhi, that the abolition of additional Excise duty, education cess and State sales tax would bring down the prices drastically, say petrol by Rs 20-25 per litre.
- Sri Lanka Guardian
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