Embattled Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for External Affairs, on Wednesday said he would not oblige his critics by resigning as he had done no wrong in the billowing controversy over the Kochi IPL franchise. As the crackling mixture of politics, sports, money and sleaze gripped a cricket-crazy nation's collective attention, even Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was forced to promise from Washington full inquiry into the matter.

"If I had done anything wrong, I would have resigned. To resign because people have chosen to deliberately misrepresent you or misperceive you means that you are giving more importance to other people's perception than to your own character and your own integrity. I am not going to resign," Tharoor told NDTV in a half-hour long interview.