Chennai, Sep 22 (IANS) Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram should be sacked for his involvement in the 2G spectrum scam, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa demanded Thursday as the opposition DMK said its leader A. Raja, arrested for his alleged role in the scandal, has been vindicated.


"The CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) should act against Chidambaram like it did against Raja," Jayalalithaa told a news channel here.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should drop Chidambaram if he does not resign on his own, the AIADMK chief said, adding that Chidambaram’s role was clear with the note from the finance ministry to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).

In the note, the finance ministry says Chidambaram could have in 2008, when he was finance minister, prevented spectrum from being given away at throwaway prices by insisting on its auction -- implying that presumptive losses worth thousands of crores could have thus been avoided.

The note, which was apparently shown to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, was prepared by a deputy secretary in the finance ministry and sent to the Prime Minister's Office March 25.

The demand also comes in the wake of Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy Wednesday submitting to the Supreme Court documents indicating that Chidambaram, as the then finance minister, was involved in deciding the 2G spectrum price along with jailed former communications minister A. Raja.

The documents filed by Swamy included a communication of Jan 30, 2008, by the department of economic affairs of the finance ministry recording the gist of the meeting between the then finance minister Chidambaram and Raja.

DMK officials have said the note that has put Chidambaram in a spot vindicates Raja’s stand that allocation of spectrum was policy decision and not his own.

A senior party official not wanting to be named told IANS that the telecom regulator did not recommend auction of the spectrum nor did the then finance minister Chidambaram.

He said it was wrong to keep Raja in jail for following a policy decision.

The former telecom minister has been saying that he had kept the then finance minister and the prime minister in the loop as far as the spectrum allocation is concerned.