Скачать или смотреть PM Manmohan Singh chairs all-party meeting to discuss Mumbai attacks

(30 Nov 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress party President Sonia Gandhi with ministers at all-party meeting
2. Prime Minister Singh and Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee
3. Finance and Home Minister P Chidambaram
4. Wide of Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Jaswant Singh (far right) and Vijay Kumar Malhotra (sitting to his left)
5. Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi and Defence Minister A K Antony
6. Ruling United Progressive Alliance's allies
7. Railways minister Laloo Prasad Yadav (in spectacles) and Samajwadi Party chief, Mulayam Singh Yadav
8. Wide of meeting
9. Left party leaders; Communist Party of India (Marxist) chief Prakash Karat (far right), Communist Party of India leaders A B Bardhan and D Raja (sitting next to him)
10. Wide of meeting
STORYLINE:
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called an all party meeting in New Delhi on Sunday to discuss the attacks in Mumbai.
Newly-anointed Home Minister P Chidambaram was present at the meeting.
Earlier in the day, Shivraj Patil, who had become highly unpopular during a long series of attacks across India, submitted his resignation to Singh, who accepted it, according to the president's office.
The main opposition party, Bharatiya Janata Party, was represented by Jaswant Singh and Vijay Kumar Malhotra.
Leader of opposition Lal Krishna Advani and BJP president Rajnath Singh were not present as they are away in Rajasthan.
The Cabinet reshuffle comes as a chorus of criticism about the government's handling of the Mumbai attacks grows louder.
A day after the siege ended, authorities were still removing victims' bodies from the ritzy Taj Mahal hotel, where three suspected Muslim militants made a last stand before Indian commandos killed them in a blaze of gunfire and explosions.
The rampage was carried out by gunmen at 10 sites across Mumbai starting Wednesday night.
174 people were killed and at least 239 were wounded.

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