Published: January 30, 2015 19:05 IST | Updated: January 30, 2015 19:52 IST
Will review those files: Javadekar
Union Minister of State for Environment Prakash Javadekar. File photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar
Jayanthi Natarajan's letter to Sonia Gandhi on specific requests on green clearances was "a serious issue", he says.
The revelations made by former Environment Minister and senior Congress leader Jayanthi Natarajan in her letter to Sonia Gandhi regarding specific requests on green clearances was “a serious issue”, said Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday.
“The revelations made in Ms. Natarajan’s letter to Ms. Gandhi which have become public today is a matter of great concern,” said Mr. Javadekar, speaking on the sidelines of a farmers’ award ceremony in Pune.
As the current Environment Minister, he said it was his duty to review those specific files where extraneous influence had been alleged as per the letter.
“I will definitely review those files and see the facts for myself,” Mr. Javadekar said.
In her letter to Ms. Gandhi, Ms. Natarajan had alleged that she had received specific requests from Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on environmental clearances and she had subsequently denied clearances to big projects on grounds that they were detrimental to the environment.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/will-review-those-files-javadekar/article6839541.ece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d6E_1sw6jA
Congress no longer the party I joined, can't survive in such a suffocating atmosphere: Natarajan
Published on Jan 30, 2015
Voicing a strong revolt against the national high command of the Congress, former union minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Friday resigned from the primary membership of the party. In a strong worded letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi followed by a press conference in Chennai, Jayanthi said that she was pained by the treatment meted out to her by the party.
"Cannot survive in a suffocating environment anymore. I feel that the time has come now for me to rethink my association because what happened in the recent past. The Congress is no longer the Congress that I joined. I hereby resign from the primary membership of the Congress party," Jayanthi said.
"Cannot survive in a suffocating environment anymore. I feel that the time has come now for me to rethink my association because what happened in the recent past. The Congress is no longer the Congress that I joined. I hereby resign from the primary membership of the Congress party," Jayanthi said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6yF04NRbNI
Kissa Kursi Ka: Jayanthi Natarajan quits Congress
Published on Jan 30, 2015At a press conference on Friday, former environment minister in the UPA II govt, Jayanthi Natarajan acknowledged that she had written the letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi. She also repeated the accusations she had made in her letter - on Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, snoopgate etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teTkddsJxA4
Abhishek Manu Singhvi reacts to Jayanthi Natarajan's accusations
Published on Jan 30, 2015
Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi held a press conference today to respond to Jayanthi Natarajan's accusations about his party and its high command. He said that it was regrettable that someone who got 4 terms as MP without fighting a single election chose to unleash a diatribe which was untrue, and called her an opportunist. Listen in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgUpyGNp7Lc
Congress claims Jayanthi Natarajan under pressure from Modi govt
Published on Jan 30, 2015
Responding to Jayanthi Natarajan's press conference, the Congress party has said that she is acting under pressure from the Modi government.