Cong against raising Bofors issue during elections

Congress today sought to bury attempts to exorcise the Bofors ghost ahead of elections saying all these "malicious insinuations have been found unfounded by courts and investigating agencies".
Seeking to debunk claims made by former CBI director A P Mukherjee in his new book on the issue, party spokesman Randip Singh Surjewala told reporters that the allegation should be judged on the "touchstone of moral decency" as Rajiv Gandhi was not alive to clarify or defend himself.
Besides, he said, the matter has been "closed" after being raised for the last 25 years before five successive national governments and all investigative agencies and by different courts.

"To raise it again on the eve of elections in the book raises questions of intent, need as also occasion", he said, adding the "malicious insinuations have been found unfounded by courts, investigative agencies as also parties concerned themselves," he said.
He expressed confidence that the country would not be taken in by these "untruths and mischievous propaganda".