Washington:
Amid a raging controversy over the 2G spectrum auction issue, Finance Minister
Pranab Mukherjee has said he will speak on it only when he reaches India on Monday.
"What is to be told there (in India), I will tell it there, not now," a visibly angry Pranab Mukherjee told a group of Indian journalists in Washington when asked to comment on the controversy over his ministry's 2G note.
Mr Mukherjee is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New York on Sunday before he leaves for India later in the evening.
Singh is in New York to attend the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Even though Mukherjee's departure from Washington has been preponed to accommodate his unscheduled meeting with the Prime Minister, officials said the Finance Minister would fulfill all his engagements in Washington.
Instead of Sunday afternoon, he would now leave Washington for New York on Saturday evening after attending the reception of the State Bank of India, they said. He is expected to stay in the same hotel as that of the Prime Minister.