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Pawar's challenge to Team Anna: File an FIR against me

FP Archives • June 11, 2012, 08:13:37 IST
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Hitting back at Team Anna for levelling corruption charges against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and 14 other cabinet ministers, including himself, NCP chief Sharad Pawar challenged it to prosecute him.

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Pawar's challenge to Team Anna: File an FIR against me

Mumbai: Hitting back at Team Anna for levelling corruption charges against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and 14 other cabinet ministers, including himself, NCP chief Sharad Pawar challenged it to prosecute him. “File an FIR against Sharad Pawar… prosecute me. You believe in the judicial system, no? Then drag me to court,” Pawar said in an interview to Marathi news channel IBN-Lokmat. On Team Anna’s demand for a probe into the charges against the ministers by a Special Investigative Team comprising three retired judges, Pawar said having a probe committee will cause delay. “File an FIR against me,” he said. The decision on wheat import, which Team Anna is alluding to, was taken by the cabinet, Pawar said. The cabinet felt that as it was a question of foodgrains, it should be purchased irrespective of the price prevailing then, he said. “It is unfortunate that allegations are being made against a good person like the Prime Minister,” Pawar said. [caption id=“attachment_338534” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“Pawar with Baba Ramdev in a recent interaction. PTI”] ![](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/PawarwithRamdev_PTI_11June.jpg "PawarwithRamdev_PTI_11June") [/caption] Pawar, however, admitted the UPA government “fell short” while taking decisions on issues like price rise. “When Vajpayee was the PM, the cabinet decided to keep (fuel) prices low or high as per international rates prevailing at the time. However, that policy was reversed by the UPA regime. A person like myself said at that time that if it was not rectified, we will face the ire of the people,” he said. “These are ill effects of decisions not taken at the appopriate time,” he said. In Greece, which faced a severe economic crisis, the leadership there did not show the courage to take bitter decisions fearing public wrath, Pawar said. Pawar said he did not envisage any prospect as of now of BJP coming to power at the Centre. On Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Pawar said one cannot aspire to lead the country if a “large community views you with suspicion”. “If a community feels distrust about a person, he will be opposed,” he said. On former Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma’s bid for becoming the first tribal President, Pawar said “NCP is part of UPA in Parliament. If we were to decide differently, there won’t be any unity”. Pawar said Sangma had informed him that the Adivasi Forum has proposed five names, which included S C Jamir, five-time chief minister of Nagaland, Kishore Chandra Deo, Tribal Affairs Minister, Kariya Munda, Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Arvind Netam, and also his name, being a former Speaker. “Sangma says he personally doesn’t want the post for himself. He says any of the five will do,” Pawar said. Maintaining that coalition era would continue at the Centre over the next decade, the NCP chief said “in the next 10 years, I don’t see any signs of a single party coming to power in the country. There are alliance governments in 80 percent of the countries, he said. PTI

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