Congress welcomes LK Advani's apology to Sonia Gandhi

Congress today welcomed LK Advani's apology to Sonia Gandhi for a BJP-appointed task force report, which had alleged that she and her late husband Rajiv had accounts in Swiss banks.
   
"It is a welcome move" AICC general secretary Janardan Dwivedi told reporters here.
   
At the AICC briefing party spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed said that he was not aware of the truth of the matter "but if it is true it is worth welcoming. If Advaniji has said this, we welcome the gesture."
   
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 former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi were among Indians who held Swiss bank accounts.
       
This had led Sonia Gandhi to write a letter to Advani denying the allegation.
       
Sources said in the letter, Gandhi had said that neither she nor her husband held Swiss bank accounts.
       
In his reply to the Congress President's letter, Advani expressed regret of her name and that of her late husband being mentioned in the task force report.
       
However, Advani also stated in his reply that the Gandhis should have denied this publicly when there were murmurs that names of her family members could figure in the report.