The former telecom minister and the prime accused in 2G case has reacted sharply to the JPC draft report which blamed him and the NDA regime for the alleged irregularities in spectrum allocation said that the Prime Minister was kept in loop and  there was no deviation in the procedure and complete transparency was maintained.

In its response to the JPC Raja reiterated his stance he had discussed first-come-first-served policy with the Prime Minister Manmohan. "If at all, only the decision to issue LoIs (letters of intent) simultaneously can be regarded as a new procedure, but even for this, there was precedent and the need for simultaneous issuance was properly documented and transparently disclosed to the honourable PM," Raja in 112-page submission said.

Raja said that he was reappointed as telecom minister by Singh in 2009. “If he felt that I had misled him or offended him in any manner, my reappointment would not have happened," he said.

He said that he personally informed PM through letters and meetings about all policy decisions.

The report also rubbished CAG's Rs 1.76 lakh crore loss theory but criticized the NDA government for Rs 40,080 crore loss due to a policy shift in 1999.

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