Chidambaram said these were only allegations and it was not a setback for him, but for the petitioner.
Home Minister P. Chidambaram ruled out his resignation in wake of the Madras High Court ruling to dismiss a case against him for allegedly manipulating the 2009 elections in the Sivaganga parliamentary constituency in Tamil Nadu.
Chidambaram said that there were 111 such petitions pending in court against members of the Lok Sabha and the Election Commission of India. He also said these were only allegations and it was not a setback for him, but for the petitioner.
The Bharatiya Janata Party asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to sack Home Minister P. Chidambaram after the Madras High Court refused to dismiss a case against him for allegedly manipulating elections in his constituency.
"We appeal to the prime minister to throw him out of the cabinet immediately," BJP president Nitin Gadkari told reporters.
"After manipulating the results of the Lok Sabha polls, and being attached to corruption cases one after the other, I want to ask what more evidence does the prime minister need against him," he said.
Accusing Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi for supporting Chidambaram's "corruption", Gadkari said: "Sonia Gandhi has said again and again that she will not tolerate corruption... Why are Sonia Gandhi and the prime minister tolerating Chidambaram's corruption?
"If he is not ousted, it means Congress supports his corruption and the wrong means adapted by him to come to the Lok Sabha," he said.
On Thursday, the Madras High Court refused to entirely strike off an election petition filed by AIADMK's losing candidate R S Raja Kannappan.
After having lost the election by a narrow margin of over 3500 votes, Raja Kannapan filed the election petition leveling several allegations of malpractice against Chidambaram.
In his petition, Raja Kannappan claimed that Chidambaram had mobilized funds from various banks to spend on poll campaign.
Chidambaram was elected to the Lok Sabha from Sivaganga in Tamil Nadu by 3,300 votes against the AIADMK's Raja Kannapan in 2009.
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