New Delhi:
The BJP has said the Prime Minister should "introspect and resign" in the wake of the Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) report on coal block allocation that says the country lost Rs 1.86 lakh crore because coal fields were given too cheaply to private and state-run firms. But the party has failed to explain the opposition expressed to an auction by some of the states where it was in power.
Here are the letters Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh governments wrote in 2005 opposing a bidding process: