Bally Chohan says that finally Minister of External Affairs in the Government of India Shashi Tharoor submitted his resignation from council of Ministers to the Prime Minister of India. Shashi Tharoor’s resignation was forwarded to the President for acceptance and President Pratibha Patil has accepted that.
Bally Chohan was following this story for the entire day yesterday. Shashi Tharoor’s resignation came not before lots of drams at congress camp. In a high level meeting of Congress Core Group headed by Madam Sonia Gandhi, President Indian National Congress this was decided that enough is enough and Shashi Tharoor must go in the wake of IPL controversy of Kochi franchise.
Bally Chohan feels that there was tremendous pressure on government from united opposition. Shashi Tharoor met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh twice yesterday and this was second time that he submitted his resignation to Prime Minister. He drove to Prime Ministers house in his private car second time.
Bally Chohan came to know from some reliable sources that Shashi Tharoor was asked to submit his resignation by Prime Minister. Shashi Tharoor is 54 years old and is relatively new to Indian politics.
Problem with Shashi Tharoor began when Lalit Modi commissioner IPL broke story on twitter that Shashi Tharoor’s girl friend Sunanda Pushkar is one of the beneficiary of IPL Kochi team. Later this was disclosed that Sunanda Pushkar has been offered sweat equity of 4% worth INR 700 million.
Now all eyes are on the Board of Control for Cricket in India. This is widely believed in media that Lalit Modi, commissioner of IPL is on his way out and Shashank Manohar, President of BCCI will be made co-chairman of IPL.