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Congress has decided to drop former External Affairs
Minister Natwar Singh from the party's Steering Committee.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the Steering
Committee presided over by Congress President Sonia
Gandhi, close on the heels of Singh's statement flatly
rejecting the demand for his resignation in the wake
of fresh allegations regarding the Volcker Committee
report on the scam.
Earlier, Singh in a brief statement here had said "there
has been a great deal of speculation in the media about
why I have not resigned. It is not because of any love
of office that I am not resigning. To resign now would
look, to many people, as an admission of guilt."
Congress Working Committee, the apex policy-making
body of the party, was turned into the Steering Comittee
after the recent organisational elections in which Gandhi
was re-elected as the party chief for the third term.
Singh had caused embarrasment to the party and the
government since the scam broke out as he refused to
take hints from the leadership to resign from the ministership
in the wake of the scam.
The action by the steering committee in a way appeared
to be a disapproval of the Union Minister's statements
suggesting that he has the support of the CWC.
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