Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary Ahmed Patel on Sunday said he would resign if it was proved that sensitive Cabinet files were cleared by Ms. Gandhi as has been alleged in the book The Accidental Prime Minister written by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s former media adviser Sanjaya Baru.
“I am a member of the Congress core group; I’m witness to what happened. If any Minister can say any file was going to [or through] Ms. Gandhi, I will resign,” Mr. Patel said in an interview to NDTV.
At the same time, he conceded that on policy matters, the party will have a say when the government takes a decision to ensure that it is in line with Congress ideology.
“Why don’t you see how the NDA government functioned? They had the RSS as an extra-constitutional authority,” he said.
