New Delhi, October 9
The Samajwadi Party today demanded immediate removal of Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil and Bihar Governor Buta Singh in the wake of Supreme Court striking down the Presidential order dissolving the state Assembly.
“It is unfortunate that the Prime Minister has so far failed to spell out the future course of action in the wake of the Supreme Court order," the SP General Secretary Ram Gopal Yadav said.
The sanctity of the apex court order would have been maintained better, if either the two had resigned on their own or the Union Government had taken immediate action of recalling Buta Singh and removing the Home Minister, the party said.
The party also
focused its attack on the RJD chief and Railway Minister Lalu Prsad, maintaining that he was instrumental in "pressurising and prevailing" upon the Prime Minister to take a decision on dissolution, in a midnight Cabinet meeting on May 22, when the President was not even in the country.
The action of Mr Patil and Mr Buta Singh has brought bad name to both the President and the Prime Minister, who have a clean image, Mr Yadav said.
Disagreeing with the government stand, that no action could be taken till the detailed order of the court was available, the party said "the operative part of the judgment is sufficient ground for the Prime Minister to act."
He reminded that during the hearing of the case, the apex court had observed that Raj Bhavans had become "extension counters" for
accommodating political leaders by the parties in power.
