As lot of controversy surround the death of Sunanda Pushkar wife of Congress leader and Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor has said that he was more anxious to know the truth behind his wife’s death. He said in Bengaluru on Sunday that he was ready to cooperate with the probing agencies in the investigation but not with the publicity seekers.
He said, “No one in this country can be more anxious than me to know the truth and to see a constructive and clear conclusion to this prolonged investigation.”
“My responsibility is to cooperate with the authorities and not with obstreperous, self-interested, publicity-seeking people ... I'm not going to cooperate with such people,” he added.
Tharoor was in Bengaluru to take part in the three-day international conference on Dr BR Ambedkar which was organised by the ruling congress Government led by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah ahead of ensuing Assembly polls.
Tharoor's stepson Shiv Menon had Saturday moved the Delhi High Court opposing BJP leader Subramanian Swamy's plea for a court-monitored CBI-led SIT probe into the death of Sunanda Pushkar.
The counsel for Menon, late Pushkar's son from her earlier marriage, has filed an application on his behalf in a pending plea filed by Swamy seeking probe in the death of Sunanda, on the ground that the BJP leader has no locus standi in the issue.
Swamy, in his plea file through advocate Ishkaran Singh Bhandari, has alleged “inordinate delay” in the investigation, claiming that many of the evidence in the case have been destroyed, and accused Tharoor was influencing investigation in the matter.
Sunanda Pushkar was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a suite of a five-star hotel in south Delhi on the night of 17 January, 2014.