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Sonia admits her 'mistake'

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi today asserted that partymen, who were recently defeated in the Lok Sabha election, would not be accommodated in the Rajya Sabha.

Talking to the media, Sonia agreed that she made a mistake in accommodating some unsuccessful Lok Sabha candidates in the Upper House. The party chief said she had been 'kept in the dark' about the party policies.

Significantly, senior party leader Arjun Singh, who had lost the Lok Sabha election, walked out of the media conference after Sonia made the statement.

Sonia said she would continue her late husband Rajiv Gandhi's practice of not accommodating defeated partymen in the Rajya Sabha.

Answering another question, Sonia said that she had not invited Tamil Maanila Congress chief G K Moopanar to rejoin the Congress. ''He had left the Congress on his own,'' she said.

Replying to another question, the Congress chief said that, for the time being, she would not like to comment on the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government's proposal to constitute a commission to review the Constitution.

Asked to comment on the Congress debacle in Uttar Pradesh, Sonia said, ''Uttar Pradesh is a different matter. I will have to do my homework on it.''

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