"Yeddyurappa has promised to resign. He is about to resign, he should resign...he is resigning but has he resigned," asked party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi at the All India Congress Committee briefing. He wondered whether the BJP and Yeddyurappa were trying to find out an auspicious date and time for him to resign. Singhvi also asked whether the delay was for allowing Yeddyurappa to "remove papers from his office".
"What is making BJP so helpless. It is hiding much more." he remarked.
He hailed the Supreme Court order for immediate suspension of mining and transportation of iron ore from Bellary district of the state, saying "over-exploitation" of the area has caused large-scale environmental degradation.
"The whole nation needed to hail the action of the apex court," he said, adding that even if 50 per cent of the reports that have come out from the area are true, then every Indian should hang his head in shame over the destruction of mineral wealth in a "rapacious manner".
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