Union minister Shashi Tharoor Resigned


Shashi Tharoor the union minister for external affairs resigned. The IPL controversy and findings of congress upper committee about the false dealings of the shares by the company formed for IPL Kochi team. At the initial stages of the discussions about the IPL issues, there was clear findings in the involvement of Shashi Tharoor. The evidence regarding the presence of Tharoor s office in charge at Chennai during IPL auction was discussed in the congress meetings. That matter was considered as a direct involvement of Tharoor in Kochi IPL team auction. Dealing the shares of company formed for IPL Kochi team to Sunantha Pushkar was another thing which was hostile to Tharoor. Due to the serious discussions of Congress leaders in the upper committee and core committee Shashi Tharoor was pressed to meet Prime Minister and informe his willingness to resign from the minister post yesterday. The core committee discussions were also againist the Tharoor. Later at night UPA chair person Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh decided to accept the resignation of Tharoor. The prime ministers office has forwarded resignation of Tharoor to President. The IPL Kochi team auction started with the issues of its shares started with an advocate notice send by the Kochi team authorities againist Lalith Modi the chairman of IPL the Indian Premier League.

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