11.   Any move to quit the cabinet should be reconsidered, he said.

12.   Arjun Singh quit the cabinet two days later.

13.   Congress sources said Arjun Singh told a party meeting Tuesday he would quit the cabinet if the tainted ministers were not sacked.

14.   Three ministers quit the cabinet of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao cabinet last week after the CBI sought presidential assent to prosecute them for alleged corruption.

15.   Nath recently quit the cabinet of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao after his name figured in a bribes-for-favours scandal.

16.   Press reports said the vice president, a nationalist, is weighing his options including quitting the cabinet.

17.   Singh had threatened to quit the cabinet earlier this week unless Rao sacked three ministers accused of corruption.