Senior Congress leader and Union minister Sunil Dutt on Sunday night attacked the Congress high command's recent decision to induct former Shiv Sena [ Images ] member of Parliament Sanjay Nirupam into the party.

He said Congress president Sonia Gandhi [ Images ] had not been given correct information about Nirupam.

The sports minister, who defeated Nirupam in last year's Lok Sabha poll, which the latter contested as a Shiv Sena candidate, said Sonia had not been told that Nirupam had called thespian Dilip Kumar [ Images ] a "traitor."

"If Sonia Gandhi knew the truth about Sanjay Nirupam and if she had been given correct information about him, she would not have taken into the party-fold a tainted person like him," Dutt said.

He also said Gandhi was being "misguided" with "incorrect" information that he had agreed to Nirupam's induction into the party.