Reportedly Former Prime Minister manmohan Singh on Monday backed his party colleague and former Finance Minister P. chidambaram, who is in Tihar jail since September 5 after his arrest in the INX media case, saying the FIPB clearance was collective decision and if the Minister was liable for approving a recommendation, and then the whole system of government will collapse.
Meanwhile after meeting the senior party leaders, chidambaram also said that as long as the Congress is strong and brave, "I will also be strong and brave". Furthermore in a show of solidarity with chidambaram, manmohan Singh, along with Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi, visited Chidamabaram at Asia's high security jail on Monday morning.
Moreover this was for the first time that Sonia and manmohan Singh visited the jail premises to meet any party leader lodged there. After meeting chidambaram, manmohan Singh, in a statement, said that they were "concerned with continued detention in custody of our colleague, chidambaram". Perhaps hitting out at the BJP led central government, the former Prime Minister said: "In our system of government, no decision can be taken by any single person. All decisions are collective decisions recorded in files." manmohan Singh said that he was confident, and he sincerely hopes, that the courts will render justice in this case.
