The Prime Minister's Office, on Tuesday, contradicted Tamil Nadu government's claim that the Prime Minister requested the state to consider dropping the charges against the two Union Ministers Murasoli Maran and T R Balu.
Reacting to a State Government's press release issued on Tuesday saying the Prime Minister requested the State Government to consider dropping the charges against the Central Ministers, the PMO said in a release, "it is clarified that this is incorrent." "The Prime Minister never made any request to the State Government to consider dropping the charges against the Central Ministers," it said. Bureau Report