New Delhi, April 20: Former minister Shashi Tharoor told the Lok Sabha Tuesday he had “done nothing improper or unethical”, but had resigned to save the government from embarrassment in the ongoing IPL controversy.

In a statement on his resignation, he said he was “deeply wounded” by the malicious charges against him, and that he had asked the Prime Minister to have these “thoroughly investigated”.
“I am new to Indian politics, but I have a long record of public service unblemished by the slightest tint of financial irregularity,” Mr Tharoor said. “It is important to me that my name is cleared.”
He said his “conscience” was clear, and his resignation was “in the highest moral traditions of India’s democratic system”. He spoke from his seat in the eighth row of the treasury benches.

Age Correspondent