UP polls: Khurshid, EC fight reaches PM's door-NewsX

Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid's speech during an election rally in UP on Saturday has brought him a deluge of trouble. Khurshid had said that he would continue to pursue the line on nine percent sub-quota for minorities 'even if the EC decided to hang him. In an unprecedented action, theElection Commission tonight sought the "immediate and decisive" intervention of President Pratibha Patil after it charged Law Minister Salman Khurshid with "improper and unlawful" defiance of its orders under which he was censured for promising sub-quota for minorities. Acting swiftly on the complaint .President Pratibha Patil immediately sent it the office of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for "appropriate action". Now the onus of taking any action lies with the Prime Minister.