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Amar targets Mukesh refinery

New Delhi, Oct. 8: Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh today raised the pitch for a review of export-oriented unit (EOU) status given to Reliance Industries’ Jamnagar refinery.

The demand comes ahead of a crucial co-ordination committee meeting between the ruling UPA and the Samajwadi Party on Tuesday. “The domestic refinery was overnight converted into a special economic zone by a designated authority. The government is short of revenue, but it is raising money through bonds while giving tax advantages to others,” he told reporters after his meeting with finance minister P. Chidambaram here today.

Singh said he would take up the issue of giving special status to Reliance, promoted by Mukesh Ambani, at the October 14 meeting. The Samajwati Party helped the ruling UPA stay in power after the Left withdrew support in July.

Singh said he was “not batting for Anil Ambani,” the younger brother of Mukesh.

According to oil ministry officials, Reliance Industries will start its 580,000-barrels-per-day refinery at Jamnagar by the end of November, well within the December deadline set by the firm.

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Cash-for-vote: No clinching evidence against Amar Singh, says Parliamentary Committee

NEW DELHI: In a reprieve for Amar Singh, the Parliamentary Committee investigating the cash-for-votes scam has in its report said there is no clinchi
ng evidence against the Samajwadi Party leader. ( Watch )

The committee has recommended a CBI probe into the case and has suggested the case needs to be investigated further.

Final meeting of the committee is scheduled to be held on October 17.

The Parliamentary Committee was probing allegations by three BJP MPs that they were offered money to back the Manmohan Singh government in the crucial trust vote on July 22.

On September 25, the cash-for-vote scam kicked up another drama when Amar Singh, under a cloud for his alleged role in the scandal, claimed that he was being blackmailed by a BSP worker who demanded Rs five crore to change his version before the Parliamentary panel probing the matter.

Azmat Ali, described by Singh as a BSP worker, had gone to Singh's residence and allegedly demanded the hefty amount for changing his statement he had given to the panel, the SP leader claimed at a press conference.

Ali was detained by police at Singh's Lodhi Estate residence on his complaint. Importantly, he could not depose before the parliamentary committee probing the bribery charges levelled by three BJP MPs.