Tushar Mehta, the Centre’s second most-senior law officer who is appearing for the investigating agency, told the top court that one key witness refused to appear for face-to-face with Chidambaram "because he is too powerful".
Sonia Gandhi, the interim President of the Congress party wrote to Uddhav Thackeray saying that though Aditya Thackeray invited her, she will not be able to attend the swearing-in ceremony.
There has been no confirmation from Sonia Gandhi yet about her attending Uddhav Thackeray swearing-in, family journalist of the Nehru-Gandhi Parivar Pallavi Ghosh reported.
Ram Krishna Dwivedi, a Congress veteran and Indira Gandhi's close aide, had defeated a former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh in a byelection from Maniram constituency of Gorakhpur in 1971.