'Cong. demand is double standard'

By Our Staff Reporter

MADURAI, APRIL 14. The Janata Party president, Dr. Subramanian Swamy, has called the Congress' demand that the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, rescind his direction to the CBI to investigate the charges made by Dr. Swamy against the Congress president, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, as `ludicrous double standard'. In a press statement here today, Dr. Swamy said that instead, Ms. Gandhi should welcome a probe if she had nothing to hide and step down as Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha. He claimed that his `documented charges' had prima facie validity and therefore if the Government failed to act, he could always approach the court though the public interest litigation route.

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