New Delhi, Saturday, December 10, 2011: Coming out in strong defence of Home Minister P Chidambaram, Kapil Sibal on Saturday attacked the BJP-led NDA of attempting to “foist” culpability on him in the 2G scam saying it was a desperate attempt to make Parliamentary democracy dysfunctional.

Sibal held a press conference to say that the government rejected all allegations against Chidambaram, finance minister at the time of spectrum allocation, and alleged that elements in the NDA were trying to malign and defame him.

He also said the then Telecom Minister A Raja did not hold any meeting with Chidambaram prior to the issuance of the Letter of Intent (LoI) to telecom operators (2G spectrum allocation) on January 10, 2008.

“In fact, the record will show that the Ministry of Finance had no no knowledge that the LoIs would be issued on January 10, 2008,” Sibal said.