New Delhi, Dec. 9 :    New Delhi, Dec. 9:  Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today said in the Rajya Sabha that the three ministers charged in the Babri Masjid demolition case had told him of their wish to resign but that he had no written resignation letters from them. Home minister L.K. Advani, human resources development minister Murli Manohar Joshi and minister of state for tourism Uma Bharati had communicated with him verbally. Technically, they had not put in their papers, Vajpayee said. ?Advani and Joshi had verbally told me they wanted to quit. Bharati had also made it clear that under such circumstances she did not want to continue in office,? he said. Responding to the Opposition?s criticism in the Lok Sabha yesterday and in the Rajya Sabha today that he had misled the House and chosen to brief the electronic media outside the House on the ?resignation drama?, Vajpayee said he would have made a statement in the House had they resigned. The distinction between written and verbal resignations did not satisfy the Opposition which said the Prime Minister should have desisted from speaking before television cameras if that was the case. The issue was raised by Manmohan Singh, leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha. He demanded that Vajpayee come up with an ?authoritative version? on the resignation episode.