Indian minister offers resignation over Mumbai attacks....(unlike our admin)

[SoCalDem]

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/30/india.attacks/

MUMBAI, India (CNN) -- Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil has submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying he would take "moral responsibility" for the Mumbai attacks, a Home Ministry spokesman said Sunday.
Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil

Patil was been widely criticized even before terrorists stormed hotels and other locations in Mumbai on Wednesday night, beginning a three-day siege that killed at least 183 people.

Prime Minister Singh accepted the resignation and immediately named Finance Minister P. Chidambaram to take over the Home Ministry post, according to a source in the prime minster's office.


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[H2O Man]

1. Yep.

This continues to be a strange situation.

[hobbit709]

2. Here it would have been "Heckovajob Brownie" and a promotion.

[madrchsod]

3. the things responsible in this country receive medals

and big contracts after they leave their positions.

there has been no "moral responsibility" in this country for the last 8 years

[LeftishBrit]

4. What happened in Mumbai is truly a horrible tragedy

I agree that the Minister acted honourably - unlike so many in similar situations.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. See what a sense of duty and responsibility cause?

not that today's GOP understands those types of things.

[SoCalDem]

6. For a group that uses "personal responsibility" and their mantra,

they are stunningly inept at applying it to their own behavior, aren't they?