Baalu fire may singe the PMO

For the first time since he became Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's integrity was dragged into the line of political fire with the corruption charges against DMK minister Baalu threatening to burn the prime minister's office.The salvo came from AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa,who pointed an accusing finger at the PMO and demanded that Singh quit for conniving with Baalu to pressure the Petrolium ministry into dispensing out of turn Gas allocations to companies owned by his sons.Jayalalithaa issued her strongly worded statement at the end of a day of dramatic develoments that saw a Television channel flash copies of 10 letters the PMO is supposed to have written on behalf of Baalu and eviction of AIADMK's parliamentary leader V Maitreyan from the Rajya Sabha when he disrupted ouesyion hour to raise the issue.Jayalalithaa said that Manmohan Singh was aware of Baalu's corruption and was conniving with him.He has lost the right to lead the World's largest democracy.