NCP leader Praful Patel on Friday said party president Sharad Pawar has not given a "clean chit to anybody" in Rafale deal.
Patel's statement came after NCP general secretary Tariq Anwar quit the party and announced that he is giving up his Lok Sabha membership saying he left aggrieved by the party's national president Sharad Pawar's "clean chit" to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the fighter aircraft deal.
Anwar told reporters that he was "hurt" by Pawar's interview to a Marathi news channel this week where the NCP president said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intentions on the Rafale fighter jet aircraft deal were not wrong.
"Pawar saheb has not given a clean chit to anybody. The NCP insists on a JPC probe in Rafale deal and demands that the price of the fighter jet be made public," Patel told mediapersons here.
About the implications of Anwar's resignation for the NCP, he said, "The party doesn't get impacted just because somebody joins it or leaves it."