The Bhartiya Janata Party has demanded that Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh order an impartial probe against Dayanidhi Maran and remove him from the post of minister of information technology till his name is cleared in the charges levelled against Maran by the New Indian Express in a news report.
Prakash Javadekar, spokesman for the BJP, said that if what has appeared in the news report is true then Maran should be given marching orders with immediate effect. "Remove him from the ministry till the probe is over," he said at a press conference in New Delhi on Wednesday.
"The report has said that Maran threatened to finish off Tata Telecom if Ratan Tata and Star News did not give his brother Kalanidhi Maran a stake in the company with the right to run the organisation. Right now the Tatas have 80 per cent stake and Star News has 20 stake in the firm," Javadekar said.
When asked if he had verified if the report is correct, Javadekar said that the fact that the report has not been denied by Ratan Tata is a proof enough that it is true.
