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He said a reporter had asked him that "in Indira Gandhi's regime, (her son) Sanjay Gandhi had emerged as an extra-constitutional authority and sought my comments on the role of foster son-in-law of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Ranjan Bhattacharya."
"I replied in a general way that there should not be any extra-constitutional centre and all decisions should be made by the Cabinet. This should by no means be interpreted that I implied that there is extra-constitutional centre in the present PMO," he said in a statement.
Referring to the PMO's competence, Sudarshan said, "I had said that the PMO should be managed by competent officers in a general way."
He appreciated the prime minister's decision to order a judicial probe into the allegations.
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