New Delhi: The comments on the Home Ministry during his recent China visit is proving too costly for Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh.
Sources have told CNN-IBN that the Ramesh has offered to resign from the Cabinet for his China remarks.
However, PMO sources said Ramesh's offer to put in his papers has been turned down by the Prime Minister.
Strongly disapproving of his remarks, the Prime Minister and the Congress had reprimanded him even as the Opposition BJP had demanded action against him for the "highly objectionable" comments.
Apparently sensing trouble, Ramesh had tried to clarify his statement in a letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi and the Prime Minister soon after his return from Beijing on Monday but it failed to cut ice.
Home Minister P Chidambaram had written a strongly- worded letter to Singh, expressing unhappiness over his Cabinet colleague's remarks that his ministry had an "alarmist" approach towards Chinese investments and was
putting "needless" restrictions on these.
Meanwhile, sources say the Congress top leadership believes Ramesh had crossed the line by questioning his country's policy on foreign soil.
In Beijing for a conference last week, Ramesh had hit out on the home ministry, saying that New Delhi was unnecessarily "paranoid" and "alarmist" about Chinese private companies investing in India.
The minister said India's security establishment was "imagining demons where there are none" and putting "needless" restrictions on Chinese investments.
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