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New Delhi, Mar 5(ANI): Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury on Saturday said that his party would react on P.J. Thomas’s appointment as the Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) after hearing what Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has to say in the matter before the Parliament.

Yechury said that being the head of the high power committee it was the Prime Minister’s responsibility, and on this score now he has to answer before the nation.

“There is nothing substantial in Prime Minister’s statement that he takes the responsibility. Obviously being in the high power committee headed by him he will have to take the responsibility, but we are waiting for what will be said in the parliament because government is assured that in the coming week hopefully on Monday itself, the Prime Minster’s statement would be made in the House; then we will react to that substantially,” Yechury said.

Thomas was appointed by a three-member committee of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Home Minister P. Chidambaram and leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj.

Thomas, who is facing a corruption case in a Kerala court, has handed over his resignation to the government on Thursday after the Supreme Court struck down his appointment as the CVC.

A three-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia had delivered its verdict on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that sought removal of Thomas from the position of CVC.

The apex court, which had on February 10 reserved its on petitions challenging the appointment of Thomas, said that the appointment was illegal and that he must go. The apex court further said that criminal case should have been considered.

The Centre for Public Interest Litigation, an NGO and others had earlier challenged Thomas’s appointment as the CVC, quoting the Palmolein import corruption case in which Thomas is an accused. (ANI)