
Price for patch-up
Sonia Gandhi personally pleaded with former railway minister Jaffer Sharief not to resign from the Congress. She promised to make amends for the mysterious removal of the name of Sharief”s grandson, Abdul Rehman, from the list of Congress nominees for the Karnataka assembly, even though the AICC had cleared him. The price for mollifying Sharief may be steep. He is willing to settle for nothing less than the governorship of Maharashtra or the ambassador’s post in Saudi Arabia.