Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Lal Krishna Advani has written to Congress President Sonia Gandhi regretting his party’s allegation that she and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi held accounts in foreign banks.
The BJP on the trails of black money stashed in foreign banks had alleged Sonia Gandhi and her husband had accounts in the foreign banks.
Gandhi, in reply to the allegation, had written a letter to Advani denying existence of any such accounts.
While apologizing in his letter, Advani said it would have been better if she (Sonia) had clarified on the black money issue earlier.
Then the BJP task force would not have made such allegations, he wrote.
Advani also regretted if Sonia was hurt.
The BJP have been demanding that the government make public the names of those with money stashed in foreign banks.
The government has been facing criticism after the Supreme Court gave stricture that the government had no information about black money sent abroad by the Indians.
The BJP claims that some Rs. 20 lakh crore are stashed away in banks abroad.