The Indian government has offered to hold a special corruption debate with opposition lawmakers to break a deadlock that meant no legislation was passed in all of the last parliamentary session. Opposition MPs forced adjournments on every day of the winter session to demand a cross-party probe into a telecoms scandal, in which mobile phone licences were allegedly sold off in 2008 for a small fraction of their value.
"If they (the opposition) assure that there will be a debate, I am ready to call a special session of parliament before the budget session so that this issue is debated," Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said late Wednesday. Mukherjee asked the main opposition BJP to agree to the debate in parliament and "not destroy the institution itself".
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