Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal were both forced to quit -Friday May 10,2013

Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal were both forced to quit on Friday May 10,2013.

Both of them called on the Prime Minister on Friday evening and submitted their resignations.

Ashwani Kumar was sacked for interfering in CBI's coalgate probe report and Pawan Bansal was sacked over the Railway bribery scam.

With the Law Minister resigning, what happens to the Attorney General and PMO official who attended the meeting with him where CBI status report was changed?

The biggest question is as to why it took so long for the government to secure these resignations

Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal who took over in October 2012 was the first Congressman to hold the key portfolio in 17 years

With the departure of Pawan Kumar Bansal(Railway Minister) and Ashwani Kumar(Law Minister) from the Ministry, there are now 8 vacancies, 3 of them in the Cabinet: in March 2013, the DMK withdrew from theGovt and its Cabinet Minister — M.K. Alagiri(Chemicals and Fertilizers) — and five MoSs left