?Ashok Chavan resignation based on perception?

New Delhi : Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said outgoing Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan?s resignation was based on ?general perceptions?.

?Whatever has been done, was done after considering all aspects. So there is no question of whether the decision was ?right or wrong??.there?s has been no wrong delivery,? Mukherjee told reporters here.

?I am not sitting on a harrow judgement. It was not a regular inquiry committee. We went through certain reports and general perceptions. Decisions are often taken based on perceptions and certain facts,? he added.

Barely had the Obamas left India, the ruling Congress party cracked its whip on corruption ahead of the winter session of Parliament accepting the resignation of Chavan over the Kargil war widows’ housing scam.

The acceptance of the resignation will make it easier for the Congress to defend themselves in the winter session of Parliament.

The report into the scam by central Congress Ministers Pranab Mukherjee and A K Antony, appointed by Congress to probe the issue, was also submitted to the party president, reports said.

Maharashtra Governor of K Sankaranarayanan on Tuesday accepted Chavan?s resignation and asked him and his Council of Ministers to continue in their offices till alternate arrangements are made.

Chavan met the Governor at Raj Bhavan Tuesday morning and tendered his resignation as Chief Minister of Maharashtra along with that of all the members of his Council of Ministers.

Amita Chavan, Ministers Rajendra Darda, Suresh Shetty, Naseem Khan, Varsha Gaikwad, Chief Secretary JP Dange accompanied the Chief Minister at the meeting with the Governor.

Sucked into the controversy over allotment of flats in the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society meant for Kargil War heroes’ families to a clutch of bureaucrats and politicians in Mumbai, Ashok Chavan had offered to resign from his post before Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi earlier, but the decision was kept a bay in view of the visit of the US President.

The 30-storey apartment, housing many top level defence officials, was built on a disputed army land at Colaba and the flats meant for the families of the Kargil martyrs were allotted to top defence officials and kins of politicians.