Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and public works department minister Chhagan Bhujbal has categorically said that he would not accept the home portfolio even if offered by party high command, in the anticipated cabinet reshuffle.
He has earlier headed home ministry till he was asked to resign in December 2003.
Speaking to scribes at Mantralaya on Wednesday, Bhujbal said he was offered the home portfolio in 2004,when the party came back to power in the coalition government for the second time. "Then, too, I had refused to accept the ministry," he added.
It may be recalled that Bhujbal had to quit after his name cropped up in the Telgi scam when he was home minister.
It was rumoured then that an attack of vandalism on a regional television channels office by Bhujbals supporters, after it aired a spoof on him, was what led to him being forced to resign.
"I was a villain for the entire world then and nobody - not even the people who I considered close - stood by me," Bhujbal recently said at a recent event to mark his 61th birthday at Shivaji Park.
