New Delhi:
Days after Dayanidhi Maran quit the union cabinet, CPI today took a dig at the government saying some "wise" ministers are abandoning the cabinet like "rats jump out of sinking ships" and asked why Murli Deora is not resigning even after charges of wrongdoings against him.
CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan alleged the Congress was on the decline and people have "lost faith" in the UPA government which speaks regularly about tackling corruption and price rise but does nothing except for getting the ministers under fire resign from the cabinet.
"How many speeches have (Prime Minister) Manmohan Singh and (Congress chief) Sonia Gandhi made against corruption, but the next day one minister resigns. Who is next? In my view, it's Murli Deora. After the allegations levelled against him, what is the propriety in his continuing? He has to go," he told reporters at an interaction organised by the Indian Women Press Corp.
"There are some ministers who are abandoning the ship like rats do when the ship is about to sink...They are wise people. It is like taking anticipatory bail because some of them know that investigations have come close to them and now they are under close watch," Bardhan said.
On whether P Chidambaram should resign in the face of allegation against him in 2G spectrum scam, Bardhan said in a lighter vein that the Home Minister is a "big pillar" of the government.
However, he added, it has come to light that he was in agreement with former Telecom Minister A Raja on the controversial first-come-first serve policy of allocating spectrum.