I will quit if leadership wants me to go : Patil

Under pressure to quit over his handling of internal security, Home Minister Shivraj Patil has said that he will quit if the Congress leadership wants him to go.

The Home Minister took exception to the criticism over his changing clothes thrice while appearing before the media on Saturday night when Delhi was rocked by the blasts and said "you criticise his policies, you don't criticise his clothes".

"I have no group either. It's only that the leadership supports me that I continue to stay here," he was quoted as saying in a TV channel.

Noting that there was no point staying on in the post if the leadership was not with him, Patil said, "I am not in much demand. I am here just because of them (leadership).

"If the leadership is not with me there is no point of staying here. I am not in much demand. I am here just because of leadership.

"I live in a clean, neat manner. If I don't get angry with the people... If I keep my cool when it is necessary to keep cool.... When such incidents happen, you find fault with me. And if they are doing it, do you expect me to reply to that kind of criticism", while responding to the criticism, he said ".

Congress person Abhishek Manu Singhvi told to the reporters ," Demands for the Home Minister's resignation at a grave time is nothing but cheap politics by the Opposition party."

"How many such times the resignation of L K Advani (Home Minister during NDA regime) was demanded and the same always got rejected by his party," he said retorting that media was speculative and there were no demands from within the UPA for his removal.