Sonia meets PM on Tharoor issue

New Delhi, Apr 18 (PTI) With the Shashi Tharoor issue
on the boil, Congress President Sonia Gandhi met Prime
Minister of India Manmohan Singh on Sunday evening to decide
on the minister's continuance in the government.
They were joined later by other members of the Congress
Core Group including senior party leaders Pranab Mukherjee, A
K Antony, P Chidambaram and Political Secretary to Congress
president Ahmad Patel.
This is the first meeting between Gandhi and Singh
after the controversy erupted over the Kochi IPL ownership
issue involving Tharoor.
Even as the parleys began, Tharoor's friend Sunanda
Pushkar, who has a sweat equity valued at Rs 70 crore in the
IPL Kochi franchise, resigned from Rendezvous Sports World.
The company is one of the stakeholders in IPL Kochi.
On a day of fast paced developments, Tharoor met the
Prime Minister for about 45 minutes during which is he is
understood to have explained his position to Singh in the wake
of allegations that he helped his friend Sunanda to acquire a
sweat equity in the Kochi IPL franchise.
There was no official word on what transpired at the
meeting either from the Prime Minister's Office or from
Tharoor's side.
There were conflicting reports one of which said
Tharoor was unwilling to step down on the ground that he has
not done anything wrong while another said he was willing to
quit if the party and the government found him to be an
embarrassment. (More) PTI AMI
AHM


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