After Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma, his colleague Sriprakash Jaiswal has earned the wrath of the Samajwadi Party which on Saturday demanded that the prime minister sack him from the Cabinet for levelling allegations of corruption against the Uttar Pradesh government "Immediate resignation should be taken from the minister.... If he does not do so, he should be sacked from the Union Cabinet.

The prime minster should give him a lesson about the democratic setup and then he can be re-inducted, if needed," senior SP leader and UP minister Shivpal Yadav told reporters in Lucknow.

Yadav's outburst came after Jaiswal is said to have accused the SP government in the state of misusing central funds for distribution laptops and tablets at a meeting in Lucknow on Friday.