New Delhi, Oct. 10: Comptroller and auditor-general (CAG) Vinod Rai will analyse the putative figures of “losses” in the 2G scam before Parliament’s public accounts committee (PAC), this time at the Congress’s behest.

The move has angered the panel’s Opposition members, who have slammed the Congress for raking up the spectrum issue after having trashed the PAC report.

They alleged the fresh attempt at explanation was a ploy to stall deliberations on the CAG’s findings on the Commonwealth (CWG) Games and the Adarsh housing scams whose protagonists are Congress leaders. The CAG has prepared separate reports on the two scandals.

The demand to put Rai “in the dock” was raised by Congress MPs Sanjay Nirupam and Sandeep Dikshit, new members of the reconstituted financial committee, when it met today.

The provocation was news reports suggesting R.P. Singh, the lead auditor for the spectrum allocation, had pegged the loss at far less than the CAG’s estimate of Rs 1.76 lakh crore. Singh, who recently retired from the CAG, had put the figure at Rs 2,645 crore, taking into account inflation.

Last week, Nirupam wrote to PAC chief Murli Manohar Joshi saying the CAG should “explain” the “exaggerated variations” in the “presumptive” losses. He alleged that Singh’s estimate “undermined the credibility” of the CAG’s report on the spectrum deals.

Until Rai “clarified” their misgivings, Nirupam argued, there was no point in the PAC discussing his reports on CWG and Adarsh.

Rai, who is present at the panel’s meetings to “aid and advise” the members, has also written to Joshi, offering to explain.

But the BJP, BJD and the Shiv Sena members on the panel have sprung to Rai’s defence and said he needn’t explain. They contended that Singh had also signed the 2G report that was first submitted to the President and then tabled in Parliament and if he had issues, he should have placed these on record.