Congress party has ruled out the speculations that the resignation of the two ministers was the action for the insistence by Sonia Gandhi. Congress Party spokesman and general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said in a statement that the removal of Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and Law and Justice Minister Ashwani Kumar from the Union Cabinet was a "joint decision" of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi.
Congress general secretary and media in charge Janardan Dwivedi said, "It has appeared in a section of the media that it was at the insistence of Congress President Sonia Gandhi that the two Ministers were dropped. This perception is not correct. The correct position is that it was the joint decision of the Congress President and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh."
He also rubbished reports that quoted senior BJP leader L K Advani as taking a dig at the Prime Minister, saying he should now call it a day as he appeared to have "abdicated" his right to decide on his Cabinet.
On the same issue, Senior BJP leader LK Advani has wrote in his blog, "Has the Prime Minister abdicated his right even to decide about his own Cabinet? Today's news reports about the removal of two Union Ministers generally emphasise that, it is Soniaji who has sacked 'two PM's men. Sheer self-respect demands that the PM calls it a day, and orders an early general election."
The reports had it that in a meeting with Singh, Gandhi was understood to have conveyed the party's unease over the public perception against the government for not acting against Bansal and Kumar, who held the Railway and Law Ministry portfolios respectively.
(With inputs from ANI)
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