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BJP says it doesn't want to get involved in corporate wars

New Delhi: After one of its spokesmen attacked Ratan Tata, BJP on Thursday sought to distance itself from the industrialist's criticism of NDA government's telecom policy, saying it did not want to get embroiled in corporate wars.

"BJP has no intention of getting involved in what arguments are being made between different corporates... Let the JPC get into this question and the entire truth will come out," BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley told reporters.

He said BJP had always held and followed the political belief that it should not get "entangled" in corporate wars.

"So, whether they (Tata and Rajeev Chandrashekhar) are right or wrong, we would not like to comment on it," he said.

His comments came after party spokesperson Prakash Javadekar hit back at Tata for his statement against the Telecom policy of BJP-led NDA government and maintained that the industrialist was a beneficiary of UPA government's policies.

"He (Tata) is not a judge. He may not be knowing much about what has actually happened," Javadekar told reporters outside Parliament.

"Ratan Tata is a great industrialist and I do not want to comment on him but if he is speaking on this (telecom), he should remember that he also owns a telecom company. The person who was benefited by UPA policy, public will not give much importance to his statement," he added.

Soon after Javadekar's statement, BJP top brass decided to distance itself from the war of words between the two business leaders. Chandrashekhar, an independent MP in the Rajya Sabha who had won the seat from Karnataka with the support of BJP and JD(S).

Referring to allegations levelled by Tata, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said "it is like spit and run" and demanded that a JPC be formed on 2G Spectrum scam issue so that people can depose before it.

"These allegations (by Tata and others) is like spit and run. Somebody makes an allegation and then runs away. Why not form a JPC which can call Ratan Tata, Rajiv Chandrashekhar and all those the Committee deems should be called to probe the scam," Swaraj said.

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