Pranab, Antony to prepare report on Mumbai housing scam

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Defence Minister A K Antony to prepare Congress response toallegations.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi has asked senior party leaders and union ministers Pranab Mukherjee and AK Antony to submit a report on the Adarsh housing society scam in Mumbai.

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The party will take a decision on how to deal with the scam after receiving the report, said party spokesman Janardhan Dwivedi in Delhi on Saturday.

He was speaking after Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan met Gandhi and offered to resign in the wake of reports that three of his relatives -- mother-in-law, sister-in-law and brother-in-law --were allotted flats in Adarsh Group

Housing Society in Colaba in south Mumbai. Dwivedi said Gandhi has asked the Finance Minister Mukherjee and Defence Minister Antony to submit the report on the issue and any decision will be taken only after receiving the same."Any further development on the issue would take place only after their report," he said.