New Delhi: Former Prime Minister V P Singh said he had never charged Rajiv Gandhi with having himself taken bribe from Bofors company.

Responding to Congress president Sonia Gandhi's remark that Singh and other political leaders had "campaigned" against her husband on the Bofors issue, he said, "Today the court has absolved Rajiv Gandhi. I feel light in my heart because it doesn't gladden any citizen's heart that blemishes come on the country's Prime Minister."

"I myself had never charged that Rajiv Gandhi himself had taken money. What I had fought for was that money had been paid by the Bofors," the former Prime Minister, who had quit Congress and later taken over the reins of power, told NDTV.

Sonia Gandhi had said that V P Singh and other leaders of all parties had campaigned against her husband at that time calling him a "thief".

"They went around campaigning against my husband naming a farzi (forged) secret account, which never existed, saying that he was a thief and that he had taken money," she had said.