PAC to defer meeting with Urjit Patel?

New Delhi: In what seems to indicate pressure on the high-profile Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament, a senior BJP MP, literally batting for the government, has urged the panel’s chairman K.V. Thomas to postpone its proposed January 20 meeting with RBI governor Urjit Patel and top finnace ministry officials. The committee is scheduled to discuss monetary policy and demonetisation. Interestingly it will be the RBI governor’s first meeting with the PAC after the demonetisation announcement by the Centre on November 8. In a letter to Mr Thomas dated January 9, a copy of which is with this newspaper, Lok Sabha BJP MP from Godda Nishikant Dubey requested Mr Thomas to reschedule the meeting to February 9, when Parliament will be on a break.