New Delhi: Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel has been drawn into IPL controversy once again.
Patel has confirmed his private secretary had e-mailed Shashi Tharoor documents containing projections of the new franchisee valuations in the IPL. Tharoor had to quit as the junior foreign minister because of controversy over his alleged role in bids for the Kochi IPL team.
The confirmation comes just two days after the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader categorically denied any role in the Indian Premier League. However, it is now emerging that Patel's secretary Champa Bharadwaj had forwarded a mail to Tharoor's personal mail account on March 19, two days before the bids were opened.
It happened hours after IPL CEO Sundar Raman sent the document to the Minister's daughter and IPL hospitality manager Poorna Patel. The Kochi consortium surprisingly made the second-highest bid.
Patel now says that it was Shashi Tharoor who had sought his help. "Shashi Tharoor called me because he was putting together a team. He wanted me to speak to Lalit Modi and help him out. This has got nothing to do with IPL. This is a needless controversy," claims Patel.
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