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Congress accuses NDA of 'politicising' Volcker Report

     New Delhi: The Congress has accused the BJP-led NDA of politicising the Volcker Committee Report. It has lambasted the alliance's move to approach President APJ Abdul Kalam for seeking the removal of External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh and said that the party was "fishing in shallow waters". Congress General Secretary Ambika Soni said that the BJP was short of issues and was politicising the report for its own selfish interests. "Since they are short of issues, they do politics with every issue without bothering to study ramifications on the image of the country," said Soni. She also dismissed as "false and baseless" allegations that party chief and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi had ever written a letter to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on the "Oil-for-Food" programme. "I categorically deny any such insinuation that the Congress President at any stage wrote a letter which could be construed as a request for any favour of any kind whatsoever", she said.