India's ruling Congress party slams Wikileaks cables on ex-PM Rajiv Gandhi

India's ruling Congress party Monday dubbed as "lies" the latest release of diplomatic cables by whistle-blower website Wikileaks which claim that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi may have been a middleman for an arms deal in the 1970s.

Congress Spokesperson Janardan Dwivedi refuted the allegations as baseless and even questioned the credibility of Wikileaks.

According to latest WikiLeaks revelations, published by The Hindu newspaper, Gandhi may have worked as a valuable negotiator for Swedish company Saab-Scania, which had tried to sell its Viggen fighter aircraft to India in the 1970s.

Quoting confidential U.S. Embassy cables, Wikileaks claims that Gandhi, then a commercial pilot, was employed by Swedish group Saab-Scandia to help sell its Viggen fighter jet due to his proximity with his mother and then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

However, the deal was finally grabbed by British SEPECAT Jaguar.

Gandhi was assassinated by a suicide squad of the now defunct Tamil Tigers in 1991. His Italian-born widow Sonia Gandhi is now the Congress chief.