Bangalore, Jan 05: Accepting the resignation of small scale industries minister Roshan Baig, who quit over his alleged links with the Telgi scam, Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna today said he would be drafted for party work and indicated his exit was "partly" the beginning of the ministry restructuring process.
Confirming to reporters that he had accepted Baig's resignation and forwarded it to Governor T N Chaturvedi, Krishna dismissed suggestions that he was playing "backfoot" on the multi-crore fake stamp paper scam. "We are playing like Sachin Tendulkar and Anil Kumble", he said, in an obvious reference to the splendid performance of the two players in India's ongoing test match against Australia. On BJP's allegation about involvement of some more ministers in the scandal and if there would be any more resignations, he shot back, "ask them to speculate on that".

"It is a letter of resignation. I have forwarded it to the governor. Notification will be issued", he said, when asked about the reason for the resignation of Baig yesterday.
To a question, he said Baig would be drafted for party work.
Asked if Baig's resignation was an indication of the restructuring of the ministry, he said, "you could say it is partly beginning of that process".
Bureau Report