Ruling out the possibility of resignation of Union Ministers Sharad Pawar and Praful Patel in the wake of IPL controversy, NCP on Thursday dismissed reports of involvement of any of its leaders or their relatives in any financial wrongdoings in the cricket league.
Party spokesman D P Tripathi saw nothing wrong in Civil Aviation Minister Patel's "personal office" forwarding projections of new franchisee valuations to Tharoor before the Kochi team won the bid.
On Sadanand Sule, son-in-law of Pawar and husband of NCP MP Supriya Sule, reportedly holding 10 per cent stake in Multi Screen Media (formerly Sony Entertainment Television), which has also been raided by Income Tax officials, the spokesman said "he does not not own a share in the company."
Sadanand Sule has been associated with the Sony Television even before the IPL was born, he added.
"No political party has made such a demand. There is no no basis for it. There is no no question," NCP spokesman D P Tripathi said at a press conference here in reply to a suggestion whether they should follow the example of Shashi Tharoor.
He said there was no no question of double standards being adopted by the NCP. "NCP has its own standards," he said when it was asked whether NCP ministers would follow the Congress example of Tharoor resigning from the government.
"We stand by the decision of the Prime Minister in the case of Tharoor," he said. PTI
