World IN BRIEF : INDIA : Premier Offers to Quit After Protests

Indian Prime Minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh offered to resign after three Cabinet ministers quit to protest an incident they claimed violated his pledge to restore honesty to government. But S.R. Bommai, president of Singh’s Janata Dal party, played down fears that the eight-month-old coalition government might collapse. He told a news conference that he refused to accept the resignation. The Cabinet ministers resigned after Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal, a powerful peasant leader from Haryana state, had his son elected as state chief minister.