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"piqued and angered by the expose of the misdeeds of the Petroleum Ministry in which the name of the Prime Minister's relative was involved and the opposition creating a raw in the Parliament and paralyzing the proceedings in the Parliament, the Prime Minister in a single politically motivated stroke ordered cancellation of as many as 3158 petrol pumps, LPG agencies and kerosene oil outlets allotted across the country since January 2000 and directed the third respondent that the cancelled petrol pumps, LPG agencies and kerosene oil outlets would all be auctioned on the basis of competitive bidding and directed the Petroleum Ministry to work out the modalities for reallotment. The decision to cancel the allotments was taken by the Prime Minister at a meeting attended by the Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani, Finance Minister Jaswant Singh, Petroleum Minister Ram Naik, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pramod Mahajan and Information and Broadcasting Minister Sushma Swaraj. The Prime Minister refused to wilt under pressure from a Section of the party to brazen it out and had final say deciding on cancellation of all allotments despite Ram Naik keeping up his more than brave face that there was no wrong doing at all."