EC to submit report on PM, FM only to President

Dehra Dun, Aug 26 (UNI) Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswamy, confirming that complaints against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaran have been received by the Election Commission through President A P J Abdul Kalam regarding their coming under the purview of the office of profit for holding posts in Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, said it may take time to collect the information.

However, the Commissioner said the Commission would submit the report after investigation only to the President.

He further said the complaint had come at the time when the President had already given his consent on the Bill, according to which any person holding a post in any trust did not come under the ambit of the office of profit.

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