Days after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar gave a ‘clean chit’ to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Rafale deal, Tariq Anwar resigned from the party on Friday. In a statement, Anwar, who is a Lok Sabha MP from Katihar in Bihar, said he ‘cannot betray the common perception over irregularities in the deal.’ Making the announcement in his Lok Sabha constituency here, Anwar said he was resigning from all posts in the party, of which he was a founding member, and also giving up his membership of Parliament. Anwar told reporters he was “hurt” by Pawar’s interview to a Marathi news channel this week where he said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intentions on the Rafale fighter jet aircraft deal were not wrong.

Days after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar gave a ‘clean chit’ to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Rafale deal, Tariq Anwar resigned from the party on Friday. In a statement, Anwar, who is a Lok Sabha MP from Katihar in Bihar, said he ‘cannot betray the common perception over irregularities in the deal.’ Making the announcement in his Lok Sabha constituency here, Anwar said he was resigning from all posts in the party, of which he was a founding member, and also giving up his membership of Parliament. Anwar told reporters he was “hurt” by Pawar’s interview to a Marathi news channel this week where he said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intentions on the Rafale fighter jet aircraft deal were not wrong.