Mumbai, June 05: Sharad Pawar’s daughter, Supriya Sule, says her family has no role in the bidding and hasn’t gained in any way.
Why is the Pawar family in a controversy again?
I don’t know what wrong we’ve done. What’s our role in the bidding? Also, we’re minority shareholders in the company.
Why didn’t you issue a statement about your stake in the company which was involved in the bidding?
Why should I when my family has is a minority stake? Where have we benefited from this? Even when City Corporation’s Managing Director Aniruddh Deshpande decided to bid for an IPL team, the board told him to bid in his individual capacity, not in the company’s name. Above all, did he win the bid?
Initially, you said neither Praful Patel nor his daughter is involved, but later it was known she worked for IPL. You also denied your husband’s family was linked to IPL.
All I said was Praful Patel’s daughter should not be dragged into the IPL controversy. I never said she was not working with IPL.
Given that your father was with BCCI, don’t you think you should have clarified about your stake in City Corporation when the IPL controversy broke out?
What is the need for it? If City Corporation had won the bid, there was a need for it. More importantly, we’re minority shareholders.
Are you saying that news reports that appeared today are false?
No, I am certainly not saying that the report in the newspaper is false. The reporter has been fair and put things in perspective.
If you were not on the board, how did you know of the resolution?
I’m not on the board. Board members told me of the resolution, asking the managing director to desist from bidding in the company’s name.
Why did the board ask him to desist from bidding?
The board asked him to desist from bidding, simply because that wasn’t the company’s core business, and nobody wanted the company to get into the bidding process for an IPL team.
Do you think somebody has targeted Sharad Pawar and his family? Especially, Modi or anybody else?
I don’t think so.
-Agencies