New Delhi, April 13 (Inditop.com) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to sack Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor for allegedly misusing his official position to secure an Indian Premier League (IPL) deal for his friend Sunanda Pushkar.
BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad also demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe in the Rs.1,530 crore IPL deal in which Tharoor has said he played the role of a mentor and helped the consortium that won the franchise of the Kochi team.
Pushkar, who is said to be close to Tharoor, has a shareholding worth Rs.70 crore in the IPL Kochi franchise and the BJP leader alleged that she has been given the share “without paying because she is close to Tharoor”.
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