Praful offers to quit,PM says no

Owning 'moral responsibility' for the Mangalore air crash,Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel is tonight believed to have offered to resign to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Owning ‘moral responsibility’ for the Mangalore air crash,Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel is tonight believed to have offered to resign to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who reportedly turned down the offer.

Patel,who met Singh after visiting the crash site in Mangalore,conveyed his “deep sense of anguish” over the tragedy in which 158 people lost their lives.

He is understood to have told Singh that over the last six years he had done a lot for the development of civil aviation sector and whatever might have been the cause of the accident,he had “moral responsibility” for the mishap as the head of the “civil aviation family”.

Singh is believed to have told Patel that there was no need for him to resign and that he should focus on facing the situation.

PMO officials declined to comment.

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