12-28-2005, 11:47 PM
<b>Sonia must step down as NAC chairperson: Advani</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->BJP President LK Advani on Wednesday demanded that Congress President Sonia Gandhi step down as head of National Advisory Council in the wake of the Iraqi oil payoffs controversy and accused it of being desperate to "hang" Natwar Singh to portray Gandhi as "squeaky clean".
"There was prima facie case that the Congress party was a non-contractual beneficiary of Saddam Hussein's largesse, while former minister for External Affairs, Natwar Singh was a mere messenger-cum-commission agent," BJP President LK Advani said in his inaugural address at the party convention that began in Mumbai on...............
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"There was prima facie case that the Congress party was a non-contractual beneficiary of Saddam Hussein's largesse, while former minister for External Affairs, Natwar Singh was a mere messenger-cum-commission agent," BJP President LK Advani said in his inaugural address at the party convention that began in Mumbai on...............
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