PM must come clean on 2G issue, says Swamy

New Delhi: Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy has said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must come clean on the issue of 2G spectrum allocation scam.

He further said that the Prime Minister must stop defending Union Home Minister P Chidambaram.

Reiterating that the Home Minister needed to be questioned over the issue, Swamy said, "If inquiry takes place against Chidambaram, he must not be in his post, he must quit."

The Janata Party chief called Chidambaram an "active participant in deciding the issue".

"Raja was a decision maker. Kanimozhi and then Maran were beneficiaries. Chidambaram was also a decision maker," said Swamy.

Meanhwile, defending the Home Minister, Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam said that the Finance Ministry note was just a sequence of events of meeting that took place and Chidambaram went with the recommendations.

"Question is whether a policy decision was wrong, and that is the question we need to know," said Nirupam.