Declining the offer, Prashant Kishor said, "I declined the generous offer of #congress to join the party as part of the EAG & take responsibility for the elections."
The ED has filed a second supplementary charge sheet before the special court, according to which Rana Kapoor admitted that he was forced to buy a painting of Gandhi-scion Priyanka Gandhi for Rs.2 crore.
Poll strategist Prashant Kishor, whom the Congress Party is eyeing to help it emerge from political oblivion, has asked the Congress leadership to elect a non-Gandhi as the party president
The controversial leader said that he is being ignored in the party and added that his position in the party is that of a newly married groom who has been forced to undergo 'nasbandi' (sterilisation).
The Volcker Committee report cited Kunwar Natwar Singh, former External Affairs Minister, and the Congress Party as "non-contractual beneficiaries" of Iraqi oil sales under the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme scam in 2001.
The Centre has issued an eviction notice to the Congress party, instructing them to vacate C-II/109 Chanakyapuri bungalow occupied by Sonia Gandhi's secretary Vincent George