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What role did Sonia have: BJP

Press Trust of India

Panaji, August 12: The BJP claimed that the Pathak enquiry authority has absolved Congress on presumptions and demanded "full inquiry" to bring out the truth behind the oil-for-food scam.

"The Pathak enquiry authority has left it open to interpretation as to how Congress party's name figured in the list of non-contractual beneficiaries. Sonia Gandhi's statement should have been recorded by the authority," BJP president Rajnath Singh told reporters here.

He said the authority traces money trail from Baghdad to Delhi's Hamadan Export but loses interest to track it further. "There is enough proof on which Pathak could have deliberated in deciding whether Congress was involved in the deal," the BJP president said.

Quoting former External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh, Rajnath said he (Singh) is on record stating that "nothing was done without prior permission of Sonia Gandhi."

He alleged that the "toothless Commission" was set upright from the beginning to absolve Congress. "Also, it should have been inquired as to who introduced Congress delegation to Iraqi government."

"Did Congress president Sonia Gandhi write an introductory letter," Singh said.

The BJP president also demanded that the account books of All India Congress committee should have been checked whether the party was a non-contractual beneficiary in the deal.

To a question, Singh said the government can take main Opposition BJP party into confidence before deciding about inquiry agency. "There should not (not) be a dispute on deciding inquiry agency," he said.