The News Minute | January 24, 2015 | 08.50 am ISTRSS ideologue S Gurumurthy has challenged former Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran to an open debate in connection to the controversy over the BSNL telephone exchange scam.After the arrests of three persons in connection with the case, Dayanidhi Maran had held a press meet wherein he had refuted the allegations and also said that the three arrested had been subjected to torture.Questioning why the meeting had been called at a short notice, Gurumurthy challenged Mraran to a public debate, reported The Hindu. Why has he(Maran) not filed a defamation case against me, he asked.Gurumurthy had been the frist person to reveal the scams publicly in the year 2011.Read An intellectual, his son and the RSS ideologue who Dayanidhi Maran claims targeted himRead Maran's allegations that CBI satisfying an RSS ideologue ridiculous: Gurumurthy