Calls for resignations and cross party talks over Mumbai attacks

The Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has opened cross-party talks on a federal agency of investigation after the Mumbai attacks. The attacks have caused 172 deaths so far. Including 22 foreigners from Israel, the US, Germany, Japan, Canada, Australia, Italy, Singapore, Thailand and France. Shivraj Patil's resignation was accepted by the prime minister but an offer to resign from the national security adviser, MK Narayanan, was turned down, with claims that it is too little too late.

I like the idea of the cross party talks, but I don't know about the resignations. I understand calling for someone's resignation because of how they dealth with the attack. But I wouldn't necessarily call for it because of the attack, unless some serious incompetence or complete neglect was shown like FEMA and Hurricane Katrina. Maybe even after 9/11 because the NSC did receive briefings that said Al Qeada was planing to fly airplanes into buildings. before it happened.