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Indian Textile Minister
Dayanidhi Maran has
resigned following
allegations of
involvement in the
country's biggest
corruption scandal, media reports say.
Mr Maran, who belongs to a key ally of the governing
Congress party, is the
second minister to be
embroiled in the scandal over telecoms licences.
>> His DMK party colleague, former telecoms minister
Andimuthu Raja, is already in jail on corruption charges."
The multi-billion dollar scandal has badly hurt the
government's reputation. India may have lost as much as $39bn in revenue,
a sum equivalent to the annual defence budget, the state auditor has said. Mr Maran is being investigated as part of a broader probe into
wrongdoing over a decade.
He has denied allegations that he coerced the founder
of the mobile phone firm Aircel to sell off his stake to a firm favoured by the
minister.
Source : BBC
Dayanidhi Maran has
resigned following
allegations of
involvement in the
country's biggest
corruption scandal, media reports say.
Mr Maran, who belongs to a key ally of the governing
Congress party, is the
second minister to be
embroiled in the scandal over telecoms licences.
>> His DMK party colleague, former telecoms minister
Andimuthu Raja, is already in jail on corruption charges."
The multi-billion dollar scandal has badly hurt the
government's reputation. India may have lost as much as $39bn in revenue,
a sum equivalent to the annual defence budget, the state auditor has said. Mr Maran is being investigated as part of a broader probe into
wrongdoing over a decade.
He has denied allegations that he coerced the founder
of the mobile phone firm Aircel to sell off his stake to a firm favoured by the
minister.
Source : BBC
