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Congress rejects as absurd BJP demand for Tharoor sack
New Delhi:Congress today rejected as absurd the BJP demand that Union Minister Shashi Tharoor be sacked over the IPL controversy and said it was up to the cricket board to decide on allegations of impropriety over his role in the Kochi IPL team. Congress sources however said there was some unease in the party over the minister of state for external affairs landing himself in another controversy that could embarass it.
Congress spokesman Shakeel Ahmed said Tharoor's role in having a IPL team from Kochi was not an 'embarrassment' and his desire to have such a team for his state was not 'unwarranted'.
'Not an embarrassment.....As an elected member from Kerala, his (Tharoor) desire to have team from there is not illogical or unwarranted,' said Ahmed when asked if the minister's involvement has been an embarrassment to the Congress.
As the row appeared to be snowballing into a major controversy Tharoor's boss S.M. Krishna met party president Sonia Gandhi Krishna at her 10 Janpath residence here around 4 p.m.
Krishna drove past waiting mediapersons outside Gandhi's house and refused to answer any question. Nobody in the party confirmed what transpired during the brief meeting which lasted less than half-an-hour.
Congress member of parliament Rajeev Shukla, who is also vice president of the Indian cricket board, also met Gandhi.Shukla denied that he talked to the Congress president about the IPL controversy involving Tharoor. 'This issue was not discussed,' Shukla told reporters.
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New Delhi:Congress today rejected as absurd the BJP demand that Union Minister Shashi Tharoor be sacked over the IPL controversy and said it was up to the cricket board to decide on allegations of impropriety over his role in the Kochi IPL team. Congress sources however said there was some unease in the party over the minister of state for external affairs landing himself in another controversy that could embarass it.
Congress spokesman Shakeel Ahmed said Tharoor's role in having a IPL team from Kochi was not an 'embarrassment' and his desire to have such a team for his state was not 'unwarranted'.
'Not an embarrassment.....As an elected member from Kerala, his (Tharoor) desire to have team from there is not illogical or unwarranted,' said Ahmed when asked if the minister's involvement has been an embarrassment to the Congress.
As the row appeared to be snowballing into a major controversy Tharoor's boss S.M. Krishna met party president Sonia Gandhi Krishna at her 10 Janpath residence here around 4 p.m.
Krishna drove past waiting mediapersons outside Gandhi's house and refused to answer any question. Nobody in the party confirmed what transpired during the brief meeting which lasted less than half-an-hour.
Congress member of parliament Rajeev Shukla, who is also vice president of the Indian cricket board, also met Gandhi.Shukla denied that he talked to the Congress president about the IPL controversy involving Tharoor. 'This issue was not discussed,' Shukla told reporters.
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