News X:As UPA tries to capture the momentum after Karnataka win.. hitting hard on the graft taint to come out clean.. it is the PM's fate that now hangs in balance..

Meanwhile, with Ashwani Kumar's ouster and his defence that he quit due to political compulsions... it is the PM's fate that now hangs in balance.

While other tainted minister Pawan Bansal's exit is not much damaging personally to the PM ... but the boot to Ashwani Kumar now finds the prime minister himself directly in the firing line... after all Ashwani Kumar's alterations to the coal report were seemingly made to shield the govt and the PM.

So Ashwani's resignation has the potential to explode in UPA's face as mismanagement in coal blocks allocation took place when the PM was handling the coal portfolio