Solicitor general Gopal Subramanium tonight kept his options open a day after he resigned protesting against appointment of a lawyer to appear for the government in a 2G related case without his consent.
Even as the government appeared to be working on how to make the second top most law officer of the country withdraw his resignation, Subramanium's action was backed by jurists, former Chief Justice of India JS Verma and eminent counsel Soli Sorabjee.
Maintaining that he resigned to keep the dignity of the post, Subramanium met President Pratibha Patil and later parried questions whether he would reconsider his decision if law minister M Veerappa Moily asked him to go back on his action.
Sources said Subramanium (53), who has been appearing for the government in the 2G related cases in the Supreme Court, said it was "unfair" that the law ministry chose to appoint Rohington Nariman as counsel for Union of India to appear in a PIL filed by an NGO against telecom minister Kapil Sibal without his consent.
However, sources close to Sibal chose to dismiss the objection saying that Nariman would appear on his behalf and not the government. Subramanium would continue to appear for the telecom ministry in the 2G cases.
