The Hindu : Cong., CPI want Ministers to quit

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Sunday, Jun 08, 2003

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Cong., CPI want Ministers to quit

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI JUNE 7. The Congress and the CPI today demanded the resignation of the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, and the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Murli Manohar Joshi, following reports of five kar sevaks stating that the duo along with the former Union Minister, Uma Bharti, had "instigated them to demolish the Babri Masjid".

In separate statements, these parties said the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, ought to call for the resignation of his two Cabinet colleagues to uphold the principles of parliamentary democracy and the rule of law.

Given that the Central Bureau of Investigation had just last week filed supplementary chargesheets against the two Ministers along with six others, the Congress spokesman, Anand Sharma, and D. Raja of the Communist Party if India asserted that both could not remain as Ministers anymore.

Of the view that the statement of the kar sevaks confirmed what had been known all along, Mr. Sharma said their inclusion in the Union Cabinet in the first place was a "mockery of the rule of law" and also amounted to an "insult to India's constitutional democracy".

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