The government will face immense problems to sort out the terms of references, tenure and members for the JPC on the 2G spectrum scam.
Initial teething troubles have begun in the formation of the JPC as the strategists of UPA2 are breaking their minds to arriveat a consensus and unanimity which ahs eluded themso far.
The government will press that the JPC covers all telecom decisions and policies right from 1998 when the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance was in power as terms of reference of the proposed Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe the 2G scam.
The main opposition Bhartiya Janata Party, however, smells a trick in the move to keep out all its senior leaders from joining the JPC, be they Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, Rajnath Singh, Ananth Kumar, Yashwant Sinha, Jaswant Singh, Murli Manohar Joshi or Shahnawaz Hussain.
Each one of these seniors have been the Cabinet ministers during the NDA regime and have been party directly or indirectly to the decisions taken by the then government and so they cannot sit in judgement on their own role under the principle of conflict of interest.
Since the JPC will be probing into even the Cabinet decisions, the BJP seniors who were part of the Cabinet cannot become members of the JPC.
That will force the BJP to field its second rung leaders to become members of the JPC, a