New Delhi, May 22: Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel Saturday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and briefed him about the search and rescue operations being carried out at the crash site in Mangalore.
Patel owned the moral responsibility for the Air India Boeing 737 crash in Mangalore whixh killed 159 people.
"I expressed my anguish. I told him about my personal and moral responsibility as head of the civil aviation family," Patel told reporters after meeting the prime minister at his 7, Race Course Road residence.
Patel said he had "a great sense of personal anguish and felt morally responsible that such a tragic incident had taken place".
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.
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.
When pressed by reporters as to whether he offered to quit, Patel said, "all issues between me and the Prime Minister need not be discussed in public."
Patel went to Mangalore Saturday morning soon after the crash to oversee the rescue operations.
---Agencies
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