"I am not going to bargain on this issue. Not at all," Sonia told reporters when asked if Congress had promised cooperation with the Government in Parliament in return for deletion of Rajiv Gandhi's name from the chargesheet.

She said: "The name of a person (Rajiv), against whom there is not a shred of evidence, is being dragged into the controversy when there are allegations that the Prime Minister's Office is protecting a big business house."

Asked whether the inclusion of her husband's name in the chargesheet reflected the Government's "ill intent", she said she had no knowledge of its intentions.

"I am not quite surewhat the Government intends to do. What they have done is despicable. The Government has been speaking in different voices on this issue," she said.

"If they put Beant Singh and Dhanu on the same platform with Rajiv Gandhi, I can't help it," Sonia said referring to Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley's statement that there was nothing unusual in a dead man's name figuring in a chargesheet.

Stating that she had nothing against the due process of law, Gandhi said, "we have nothing against the judicial process, the guilty must be brought to book. Our concern is only with the inclusion of Rajiv Gandhi's name."

When asked about the Congress' poor show in the recent Lok Sabha elections, she said a committee had been formed to go into the causes of the debacle. In reply to a question regarding a rift in the party's UP unit, she said there are only minor differences.