Tactical retreat on 2G

Though withdrawing its review petition against the Supreme Court’s cancellation of 122 2G licences has to be deeply embarrassing for the government, the decision was a good one because the petition was so weak that there was a good chance it would also have been dismissed. The letter withdrawing the petition argues the government is doing this since the SC has only issued a notice on a few of the points raised in its petition, and officials privately argue the withdrawal is irrelevant since the government has a Presidential Reference pending and that makes many of the same points.

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