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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Singapore Asia Pacific World India PM defends himself over $40 bln telecom scam AFP - Sunday, November 21 Send IM Story Print NEW DELHI (AFP) - – India's premier on Saturday denied accusations of "inaction" in a 40-billion-dollar telecoms scandal and promised that any wrongdoers in the case would be punished. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is accused of failing to act on allegations that that his telecoms minister sold second-generation (2G) mobile phone licences for a fraction of their value in 2008. The scandal has engulfed Singh, whose ruling Congress party's popularity partly rests on his "Mr Clean" image, and it is being seen by Indian commentators as his government's most serious crisis in its six years in power. "There should be no doubt in anyone's mind that if any wrong thing has been done by anybody he or she or will be brought to book," Singh said in his first public statement on the accusations. "We need to deal effectively with the threats of corruption," he told a leadership forum. While there is no suggestion Singh profited from the licence allocations his reputation as someone who tolerated no corruption has taken a hit, analysts say. The firestorm was ignited when India's chief auditing body declared the sale of 2G telecom licences by former telecoms minister A. Raja lost the country up to 40 billion dollars. In an unusual step, the Supreme Court upped the pressure on Singh by asking him to make a statement explaining his "alleged inaction and silence for 16 months" on a request by a prominent opposition lawmaker to prosecute Raja, who stepped down last weekend denying any wrongdoing. Under Indian law, the premier must approve criminal proceedings against any cabinet member. Responding to the allegations, Singh's office submitted an affidavit to the court Saturday denying inaction. The submission said letters from the opposition lawmaker, Subramaniam Swamy, were forwarded to the justice department, which concluded any move against Raja would be "premature" as the federal Central Bureau of Investigation was already probing the case. Swamy told AFP the affidavit failed to answer his allegations about delays. "The prime minister is an extremely decent man but not a politician. He took the line of least resistance and waited too long to take action," he said. Next week India's attorney general G.E. Vahanvati is due to appear before the court on Singh's behalf to reply to any questions about how he handled Swamy's request. In a sign that the pressures might be taking their toll, Singh, 78, who introduced India's market-led reforms in the early 1990s, said he sometimes felt "like a high school student -- going from one test to another". The opposition has paralysed parliament over the issue, prompting what Singh said was a "humble request to all political parties to allow parliament to function." "We can discuss everything," he said. Ravi Shankar Prasaad, spokesman for the main opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, rejected Singh's defence, accusing him of being "guilty of gross indifference to the looting of the system." The Congress party has rallied round Singh, whose cerebral style and reputation for probity usually put him above India's mud-slinging politics. "There has been no damage to an honourable man held in the greatest esteem by the country," said Congress Party spokesman Manish Tiwari. Raja hails from a powerful southern regional party that is a pivotal member of the coalition government headed by Singh's Congress. Congress officials were said by commentators to have been unwilling to risk the fall of the coalition by upsetting Raja's DMK party. Opposition parties charge the ex-minister, who presided over the world's fastest-growing mobile market, gave away the lucrative phone licences to firms he favoured -- some of which had no telecoms experience. 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