Manmohan Singh should go, like Raja and Maran: BJP

New Delhi: BJP today stuck to its demand for the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the coal allocation issue and justified their demand on the grounds that former Telecom Minister A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran had to quit when they faced allegations.

"As A Raja had to go for 2G scam, and Dayanidhi Maran had to resign for his role in Aircel-Maxis deal, similarly the then Coal Minister Manmohan Singh has to go," BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said.

Rejecting Congress' appeal of a parliamentary debate on coal bloc allocation issue, he maintained it is only logical that Singh should resign as a fair investigation will not be possible without his resignation as he is the Prime Minister and hence in-charge of CBI.

Though the Congress-led UPA government is reportedly in touch with the main opposition and is trying to break the deadlock by the offer of forming a Joint Parliamentary Committee as was done in the case of 2G spectrum scam or form a Committee to look into the coal block allocations, BJP and its NDA allies are not likely to allow Parliament to function this week.

BJP cited recent experiences to insist that debates in Parliament or even in JPC on the 2G scam have so far not yielded desired results as concrete action has not been taken.

"Congress' appeal for a debate is a sham as they have never respected commitments made in parliamentary debates. In the Commonwealth Games case, the Prime Minister appointed the high-powered Shunglu Committee and promised to act upon its recommendations. But though the committee came out with six reports, no action was taken and the report was dumped," Javadekar said.