The Congress on Sunday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai tender an unconditional apology to the nation for their “sinister role” in an alleged conspiracy to bring down Manmohan Singh-headed the UPA-II government using the purported 2G spectrum scam.

A conspiracy to destabilise the government has been exposed with Rai’s recent apology to Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam for wrongly naming him as one of the MPs who had pressured him not to name Singh in the CAG report on 2G spectrum allocation, Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh said. PTI

“The criminal conspiracy to bring down the UPA government is thus writ large. The nation must know that truth has been vindicated.... The BJP had conspired to malign our government and Vinod Rai was a party to it.

“Let Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vinod Rai and all others tender an unconditional apology to the nation and admit to their sinister role (in the conspiracy),” Vallabh told a media conference here.

Rai had recently tendered an unconditional apology to Nirupam in response to a defamation case filed by the latter following his claim that the Nirupam was one of the lawmakers who sought to pressure him to keep Manmohan Singh’s name out of the government’s audit report on 2G spectrum auctions.