Hazare seeks PM's resignation over coal scam

July 18, 2013 00:25

Social activist Anna Hazare today demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should step down from his post, accepting "moral responsibility" for the coal blocks allocation scam.

"The picture is very clear in the coal scam. The truth of the scam is coming out, so Manmohan Singh should not continue as prime minister. He should resign accepting moral responsibility (for the scam)," he said here at Press Club.

To a question, the anti-corruption crusader said, "It is absolutely wrong to say that I am against Congress. I have nothing to do with either BJP or Congress. But my question is why BJP did not oppose the coal scam in Parliament in a forceful way?"

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