Have done no wrong, won't resign as MP, says Tharoor on being quizzed in Sunanda death case

January 28, 2015 09:22

NDTV reports: Caught in a legal tangle and at the centre of investigation in the mysterious death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has hit out at the media and a section of his own party which has been demanding his resignation.

Firmly defending himself, the senior Congress leader said no one can decide his fate except the law of the land.

"As far as I am concerned, if we are going to become a country in which any charges in the media however unfounded, however false should lead a politician to give up the trust of the voters that he has won the hard way, then what kind of democracy is this. We have rules in our democracy, we have rules in our society, we have laws. I will respect the laws and I have always done so," he said.

The Congress MP claimed that his career as a politician is unblemished and demands that he should resign are 'absurd'.

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