26/11 remarks: Cong's Alvi taunts Chidambaram; questions timing

NEW DELHI: Veteran Congress person Raashid Alvi connected Wednesday slammed his workfellow P Chidambaram aft helium said that India decided not to retaliate against Pakistan aft 26/11 Mumbai attacks owed to unit from the United States.Alvi questioned wherefore Chidamabaram is making specified a assertion aft 16 years and said that specified remarks volition lone payment the BJP."Does this mean helium was moving nether US pressure? Such a connection volition lone payment the BJP. Why is Chidambaram making this assertion aft 16 years?" Alvi asked.

"If helium disagreed astatine that time, helium should person resigned. Many wrong the Congress privation to weaken the party. It is similar a location catching occurrence due to the fact that of its ain lamp," helium added.This comes a time aft Chidambaram said that the thought of retaliation “did transverse [his] mind”, but the authorities yet decided against subject action. He said this determination was influenced mostly by the ministry of outer affairs and elder diplomats.“The full satellite descended upon Delhi to archer america 'don't commencement a war'. Condoleezza Rice, who was past US caput of state, flew successful 2 oregon 3 days aft I took over… to say, 'please don't react',” helium said.

Chidambaram, who took implicit arsenic location curate conscionable days aft the attack, besides acknowledged that helium discussed imaginable retributive steps with the past Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and different cardinal figures. “The Prime Minister had discussed this adjacent erstwhile the onslaught was going on... And the decision was, mostly influenced by the ministry of outer affairs and the IFS, that we should not physically respond to the situation,” helium recalled.The remarks person sparked a governmental row, with BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla questioning whether past Prime Minister Manmohan Singh oregon UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi had overruled Chidambaram’s idiosyncratic presumption successful favour of retaliation.Reacting to Chidambaram’s statements, Union curate Pralhad Joshi posted connected X, “After 17 years, Chidambaram, erstwhile location minister, admits what the federation knew - 26/11 was mishandled owed to unit from overseas powers. Too little, excessively late.”