Mumbai terror attack: RR Patil resigns

RR Patil resigns over Mumbai terror attack

Updated on Monday, December 01, 2008, 00:00 IST

Zeenews Bureau

Mumbai, Dec 01: Heads continued to roll in the wake of last week’s deadly terror attack in Mumbai, with Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister RR Patil resigning on Monday.

"I have submitted my resignation letter to Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh. I have gone by my conscience and decided to take this step," Patil, of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), said a day after refusing to step down in the aftermath of the mounting criticism following Mumbai terror strikes.

NCP supremo Sharad Pawar has asked Deshmukh to accept Patil’s resignation. Pawar, who is also the Union Agriculture Minister, said Patil was feeling "uneasy" since the terror strikes and he had expressed his desire to step down three days back.

Patil’s resignation came after a meeting of the NCP in New Delhi. Senior NCP leader and state Water Resources Minister Ajit Pawar's name has cropped up as the frontrunner to replace Patil.

There are also reports of growing pressure on CM Deshmukh from within the Congress party to step down.

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and other senior leaders are reported to be furious over Deshmukh’s move to take Bollywood film director Ram Gopal Verma along with him while visiting the devastated Taj Mahal Hotel yesterday. If sources are to be believed, Sonia has made it clear that Deshmukh will have to go today only.

Senior leader Prithviraj Chavan is believed to the frontrunner to replace Deshmukh.

RR Patil’s resignation came after Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil stepped down, taking moral responsibility for the terror attack on Mumbai, which claimed 183 lives and left at least 295 injured.

Shivraj Patil has been replaced by Finance Minister P Chidambaram, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh taking over the charge of FinMin.

National Security Adviser M K Narayanan also offered his resignation yesterday, but he has been asked by the PM to continue.

R R Patil had earlier grabbed headlines when he described Mumbai terror attacks as “small incidents”.

There are also reports that Intelligence Bureau Director P C Halder, Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta and other bureaucrats may also be asked to quit in the wake of the Mumbai attacks.

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Vilas Ro , u should take up a new job of Cleaning Public Toilets of Mumbai That goes very well with your Image & ur competency -Jai - Mumbai

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I just want to ask Mr R R patil that similar to the GM of Taj, if his wife and childrens were death in the attack, would it still be a samll incident for him? -jagdish - mumbai

Check out my article detailing political factors that led to intelligence agencies being caught unawares of the Mumbai Terror Attacks: http://commonsensetopicsblogspotcom/2008/11/mumbai-terror-attacks-colossalhtml -varun - USA

The Mumbai tragedy should lead to a re evaluation of our priorities It is an open secret that the present Congress party has put all its military focus on helping the Sri Lankan governments war against the minority Tamils This is due to Sonia Gandhi`s thirst for revenge Consequently Pakistani militants are able to sneak in wreck havoc The genocide of the Tamil minority is not in the LONG term interests of India When China invaded Tibet, we lost the buffer it afforded to the north of us The Singhalese Buddhist, for historical and religious reasons, hate all Hindus If the Tamils are vanquished, then we lost another buffer to the south of us I hope the Mumbai tragedy will convince people that the Congress Party is under the dominion of people who do not put the countries interests at heart and the need for strategic visionaries There was a reason behind Indira Gandhi`s actions in Sri Lanka When she was Prime Minister, none of these things happened -Tag - USA

I agree Mr Faisal -Pramod - India

Mr Jai from MumbaiTHis is not the time to joke or be called from Mumbai,,,,like all Thackerays,,,, -Mohammed Pandit - India

Thank you Mr Mathur Ill repeat my msgMY BROTHERS - DONT LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN Lord Macualays address to the British Parliament on Feb 2, 1835 I have traveled across the breadth & length of India and I have not seen one person who is a begger, who is a thief Such wealth I have seen in this country Such high moral values people of such caliber that we do not think we would conquer this country unless we break the very backbone of this nation which is her spiritual and cultural heritage & therefore I propose we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture for if Indians think that all that is English is good and greater than their own they will lose their self esteem their native culture Their strength of unity between religion should be broken & only then we could succeed -Faisal - India

Message for all political parties and ministers: My Honorable Ministers Please Take Some Actions… For God Sake Don’t Think About Your Vote Bank Be Human First Its long life to earn money but this is the chance you all have to set an example for coming generation and write your name in History When one Army man, Police man or Commando don’t think to give there life’s when it’s matter of Countries prestige then why you can’t stop playing political game and come together to make every Indian Proud on You Soldiers done there job by killing all those militants and it’s your time to do something!!!! -Lucky Sharma - Delhi

About time this useless RRPatil steps down Thanks to his interference, the police were not allowed to nip Raj Thackerays violence in the bud Now Patil has the gall to dismiss the terror attacks as insignificant Better he use his talents to chase bar girls -Marathe - Mumbai

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