Taking potshots at Vinod Rai over his comment that placing reports in Parliament can't be the Comptroller and Auditor General's only role, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Friday asked whether the former intended to become the country's prime minister, if not an accountant.
Singh said the CAG's working is defined in the Constitution and everyone should do his or her work according to those definitions.
"If the judiciary will do the executive's work, the CAG will formulate policies and the civil society will formulate laws, then how will the democracy run? What does the CAG want to become if not an accountant? Does he intend to become the prime minister," he added.
Rai, whose reports on losses from 2G spectrum and coal block allocations sparked allegations of massive corruption in the government, in his lecture at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday said that the role of a public auditor cannot be confined to merely placing reports in Parliament.
"Should we as public auditors limit our role to placing reports in Parliament or go beyond that and seek to sensitise public
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