New Delhi: External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh has rejected the BJP?s demand for his resignation.
He has contested the author of the Volcker report, Paul Volcker's statement that he was asked to respond on allegations against him.
He claimed that the BJP was not in a position to decide who should be the External Affairs Minister of the country.
He added that it was the Prime Minister?s prerogative to keep him in the Cabinet but he was confident that his party would not fail him and that he would continue as the External Affairs Minister.
Natwar Singh stated that he had never thought of resigning ever since the controversy broke a week ago.
He said that people who did a good job did not put in their resignation papers.
He also claimed that the allegations against him and the Congress party were ?outrageous? and that there was no involvement of either in any oil deal that had allegedly taken place during Saddam Hussein's regime during the UN applied sanctions.
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