Maran meets PM, fuels speculation of exit from cabinet
Maran meets PM, fuels speculation of exit from cabinet Union textiles minister Dayanidhi Maran, the former telecom minister in the first term of the UPA government, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday amid widespread speculation that the DMK leader, implicated in the 2G spectrum scam, is being shown the door leading out of the cabinet
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In fact, one report citing unnamed sources said Maran told Singh he would resign ''if push comes to shove'', in order to save the prime minister further embarrassment
The meeting was in connection with official work.''
Asked about the meeting, DMK parliamentary party leader T R Baalu too said, ''There is nothing to it
They said he would ''clarify'' his side of the 2G story before Singh, and would not quit ''under a cloud of suspicion
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