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PM Modi launches scheme for retail participation in government securities. After Kanpur and Kannauj, now Zika cases reported in Lucknow. Home Nation. All you need to know about the 2G spectrum scam The special court has been hearing two separate cases related to 2G spectrum allocation. By Express News Service. Now we are on Telegram too. Follow us for updates. While there were some convictions in the coal blocks allocation case—former coal secretary H. Gupta and two other bureaucrats were convicted, as also Dilip Ray, minister of state in the coal ministry in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government of —special CBI judge O.

Saini in acquitted all the accused in the 2G spectrum case, saying the prosecution had miserably failed to prove its case. In September , the Supreme Court cancelled of the coal block allocations since , when captive mining was liberalised. However, the impact of the CAG reports and media discussions on the scams was huge. Singh—all except Hazare became politicians soon—led the protests on the streets, then Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj spearheaded the push against the government in Parliament.

The tense years had their lighter moments too, as Swaraj and Manmohan Singh exchanged couplets to bring the temperatures down. This correspondent remembers one such exchange in Those times saw the emergence of a culture of public protests—which one sees even now, in the ongoing farm agitation. Anti-corruption activists became full-fledged politicians, and the negative publicity of the Congress created a national void that was filled by the BJP under Modi.

India Against Coruption became a turning point as people began to talk about governance. Leaders became not simply givers of entitlements, but objects of interrogation. However, it is true that the Right to Information Act enacted by the Manmohan Singh government proved to be a catalyst in this transformation.

However, the change proved short-lived, says Kumar, as AAP turned into a successful election machine. Electoral politics is like Holi ka hurdang Holi revelries. Here are some questions and answers on the case:. The CBI say that in , when the government issued new telecoms licences, several rules were violated and bribes were paid to favour certain firms. Several licences were issued to firms with no prior experience in the telecoms sector or were ineligible or had suppressed relevant facts, an auditor said in its report.

Police have accused A. Raja, the then-telecoms minister, of having taken bribes from two firms which are now the local joint venture partners of Telenor and Etisalat. The report sparked political outrage and the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party BJP all-but-shut an entire session of parliament demanding a special parliamentary probe. Raja was forced to resign and was arrested over the report.