New Delhi: Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid on Monday downplayed the issue of the Finance Ministry note on 2-G allocation which has prompted the opposition to demand the resignation of Home Minister P Chidambaram, saying the document does not contain anything worrisome.
"I have seen the note. I don't think the note has anything on which we should express worry," Khurshid told reporters in New Delhi.
He said the note was actually a "summary" prepared by an official at the lower level.
"People give their opinion over and above the summary. The importance of the opinion will be seen when the issue is discussed," he said.
He claimed that the matter was "not so big" as was projected by the media.
The March 25, 2011 document on allocation and pricing of 2G spectrum broadly suggests that Chidambaram, when he was the Finance Minister, could have insisted that they be auctioned instead of being sold on a first-come-first-serve basis by former telecom minister A Raja.
The note was written by P G S Rao, Deputy Director in the Finance Ministry, to Vini Mahajan, Joint Secretary in the PMO.
The covering letter to the note also said that Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had seen the document.
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