Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L K Advani has apologised to Congress President Sonia Gandhi for a party-appointed task force report, which had alleged that she and her late husband, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, had accounts in Swiss banks.
BJP had appointed the task force on unravelling the amount of black money stashed by Indians in foreign banks and ways to bring it back. The report had alleged that Sonia Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi were among Indians who held Swiss bank accounts. This had led Sonia Gandhi to write a letter to Advani denying the allegation.
In his reply to the Congress President’s letter, Advani expressed regret of their names being mentioned in the task force report. However, Advani also stated in his reply that the Gandhis should have denied it publicly when there were murmurs that names of her family members could figure in the report.