not be forced to speak the pandemonium aggravated as opposition mps claiming the minister had used insulting language a subsequent perusal of records revealed nothing objectionable and mukherjee ambled across to opposition seats and seemed engaged in normal conversation soon after the house adjourned later when the house met at 4pm he apologized for losing his cool coming out strongly in chidambarams support congress argued that swamys documents were not verified and the interpretation that karti acquired shares in aircel was unsubstantiated although the controversy once again saw opposition gunning for the home minister by afternoon the storm had blown over as the house resumed normal proceedings swamy a known critic of chidambaram on april 26 had released documents alleging a firm advantage strategic consulting in which karti has interests having paid rs 26 lakh to aircel when the telecom firm was owned by c sivasankaran swamy alleged that as finance minister during upa1 chidambaram ensured that aircelmaxis was not cleared until sivasankaran had given shares to karti the entire aircelmaxis deal is now subject to a cbi probe with dmk leader dayanidhi maran having to quit as cabinet minister following sivasankaran alleging he was armtwisted into selling to maxis in lok sabha on thursday bjp alleged the rs 4000 crore aircelmaxis deal was a big scam and yashwant sinha said prima facie what has happened is a big scam and government should not hush it up he said karti picked up a 5 stake in the malaysian company the home minister dismissed the charges as wild and reckless speaking outside the house he said he had read out kartis statement to which he had added a couple of lines of his own bjp mps had tried to challenge chidambaram in the house wanting to know under which rule was the statement made congress mp pc chacko who was in the chair said he was empowered under rule 357 to allow the statement earlier in thursday without naming chidambaram who was finance minister in 2006 when the deal took place sinha alleged that the minister had not recused himself when the matter came up before the foreign investment promotion board fipb on whose recommendation he had acted sinha also sought to know whether the transaction had taken place in march or october 2006 pointing out that media reports had alleged the fipb clearance had been put on hold he wondered as to how maxis can buy 993 of aircel shares when the rules permit that a foreign equity cannot exceed 74 he said it was a matter of investigation whether the remaining equity was sold to an indian at a throwaway price while mukherjee was present in the lok sabha as also congress president sonia gandhi chidambaram was not there aiadmk members too trooped into the well seeking to have a say in the matter amid the uproar bjp members also alleged that the government had been negligent and not provided jute bags for grains subsequently mukherjee rose to make