Chidambaram resignation Drama

News pulse, Politics | admin | April 9, 2010 at 4:48 am

Taking responsibility for the worst Naxalite carnage on security forces, Home Minister P Chidambaram offered his resignation from the Cabinet to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who today rejected it.

In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, the home minister offered to quit after the massacre of 75 personnel from CRPF’s 62nd Battalion and one Chhattisgarh policemen by Maoists in Dantewada on Tuesday.

Speaking at the “Valour Day” function of the CRPF, the Minister said that on Wednesday immediately on his return from Dantewada in Chhattisgarh, where 75 CRPF personnel were killed by Maoists, he called on the Prime Minister and gave him in writing that that “I accept full responsibility for what happened in Dantewada. Immediately on my return from Chhattisgarh, I called on the Prime Minister and gave it in writing that I accept full responsibility for what happened and I think I will stop there.”

Declining to go any further, he said, “Let me not elaborate. I am proud of the CRPF.”

In the early ’90s, Chidambaram had resigned as Minister of State for Commerce at the time of securities scam when there were reports that his wife had bought shares in a scam-tainted company.

Moments later the PMO announced that the Prime Minister had rejected Chidambaram’s resignation given in writing.

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