The BJP has asked for Ramesh to be fired, attacking him for working as a lobbyist. The Opposition justifies that allegation because Ramesh's remarks in China were made in the context of the attempts of a Chinese company, Huawei, that wants to import and install telecom equipment in India.
In addition to comments that could be seen as pushing the agenda of one corporate, Ramesh left the government in the embarrassing position of having its policies criticized abroad, a practice avoided even by Opposition leaders
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh's latest comments in Beijing are certainly not his first case of foot-in-mouth. Ramesh has quite a few recent public gaffes to his credit. Too often, candid becomes controversial:
'FILTH' REMARK
"Our cities are the dirtiest cities of the world. If there is a Nobel Prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt," the Environment Minister said in November last year at a function to release a report. The minister was referring to poor facilities for disposal of municipal waste and though he might not have been terribly off the mark, the comment did not go down too well
NO china at all-Ramesh sulked a day after reprimanded by the PM for commenting controversially. He lost is cool amidst press & asked them to leave. He remained MUM with china, who have criticized India's government policies towards china. He drew a flak from both the ruling & opposition parties, resulting in PM to pull him up.
In an embarrassment Mr ramesh jairam said that the policy could harm the Copenhagen warming ties up amongst the neighbouring companies.Centre asked to sack jairam.
And why only Jairam Ramesh? The Beijing episode is only the latest in a string of embarrassments for the Manmohan Singh government
Recently, Jairam openly aired his differences with Road Transport Minister Kamal Nath during a cabinet meet. Kamal Nath accused the environment minister of blocking projects because environment clearance hadn't been taken.
Shashi Tharoor took a stand against quitting during the IPL controversy without consulting the Congress or UPA managers. He was eventually forced to quit to avoid further embarrassment
Source-NDTV.com