NEW DELHI: He and his government may be under fire, but Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today categorically stated that there is no question of Law Minister Ashwani Kumar resigning from the Union Cabinet on the coal blocks allocation issue.
"There is no question of the law minister resigning... the matter is sub judice," the prime minister told reporters on the sidelines of a defence investiture ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan here.
Playing down the demand for his own resignation, the prime minister attacked the opposition for disrupting the parliament over the issue and said the world was laughing at India because of this.
"This is not the first time...in the last nine years how many times the opposition has demanded my resignation. But I would like to appeal to the opposition that they should let the parliament function. By not allowing parliament to function, we are making a mockery of our system of democracy. The whole world is laughing at us."
Parliament was the proper fora for debating all issues, he stressed.
On the Chinese army's incursion into Ladakh, the prime minister said: "We have a plan, we do not want to accentuate the situation."
On Friday, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director Ranjit Sinha admitted to the Supreme Court that Kumar had asked for a copy of its investigation into the coal blocks allocations before it was submitted to the apex court.
source:yahoo
"There is no question of the law minister resigning... the matter is sub judice," the prime minister told reporters on the sidelines of a defence investiture ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan here.
Playing down the demand for his own resignation, the prime minister attacked the opposition for disrupting the parliament over the issue and said the world was laughing at India because of this.
"This is not the first time...in the last nine years how many times the opposition has demanded my resignation. But I would like to appeal to the opposition that they should let the parliament function. By not allowing parliament to function, we are making a mockery of our system of democracy. The whole world is laughing at us."
Parliament was the proper fora for debating all issues, he stressed.
On the Chinese army's incursion into Ladakh, the prime minister said: "We have a plan, we do not want to accentuate the situation."
On Friday, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director Ranjit Sinha admitted to the Supreme Court that Kumar had asked for a copy of its investigation into the coal blocks allocations before it was submitted to the apex court.
source:yahoo
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