Will talk on 2G in India: Pranab

Finding himself in the middle of the controversy over the 2G spectrum crisis raging in India, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is in New York to attend the 66th session of the UN General Assembly, said that he would answer questions regarding the controversy only when he returns to India on Monday.

"I told you that my question is only addressed to that (2G). What is to be told there, I will tell it there (in India), not now," Mukherjee told a group of Indian journalists in Washington.

He is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New York on Sunday before he leaves for India later in the evening.

Singh is in New York to attend the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Even though Mukherjee's departure from Washington has been preponed by a day to accommodate for his unscheduled meeting with the Prime Minister, officials said the finance minister would fulfill all his engagements in Washington.

Instead of Sunday afternoon, he would now leave Washington for New York on Saturday evening after attending the reception of the State Bank of India, they said.

He is expected to fly to New York and stay in the same hotel as the Prime Minister.