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NEW DELHI: Former Union location curate P Chidambaram connected Thursday deed retired astatine Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks connected 26/11 and called it "terribly wrong" and "disappointing".Chidambaram's remarks came a time aft PM Modi, successful his Navi Mumbai airdrome inauguration speech, said that a elder
Congress
person admitted India was acceptable to onslaught Pakistan aft the 2008 attacks, but the past UPA authorities stopped the subject enactment owed to "foreign pressure."Chidambaram dismissed PM's claims arsenic "terribly wrong" and accused him of twisting facts for governmental gain.Sharing a station connected X, the Congress person said, "I punctuation the Hon'ble PM's words (as reported successful ToI): ".....has said India was acceptable to respond aft 26/11, but due to the fact that of the unit exerted by immoderate country, past Congress govt stopped India's equipped forces from attacking Pakistan.""The connection has 3 parts, and each 1 of them is WRONG, terribly WRONG. It is disappointing to work that the Hon'ble
prime curate of India
imagined the words and attributed them to me," helium added.
BJP nationalist spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari deed backmost astatine Chidambaram's caller remark, and asked the erstwhile national curate to "stop protecting Sonia Gandhi's brushed stance connected terror."In a abstracted station connected X, helium said, "Mr Chidambaram, Stop protecting Sonia Gandhi's brushed basal connected Terror. I punctuation P Chidamaram: 'UPA govt didn’t retaliate against Pakistan aft 26/11 due to the fact that the MEA was against it and, US Secretary of State Rice told america not to spell to war.' Congress did not avenge 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attack due to the fact that of outer pressure!"Without naming Chidambaram, PM Modi connected Wednesday accused Congress of stopping a subject onslaught connected Pakistan aft the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, allegedly nether "foreign pressure."
He did not sanction Chidambaram successful his remarks.Speaking astatine the inauguration of the Navi Mumbai International Airport and different infrastructure projects successful Mumbai, PM Modi said that, "Recently, a elder Congress person and erstwhile Home Minister has revealed that aft the 2008 Mumbai attacks, our information forces were acceptable to onslaught Pakistan, but owed to unit from different country, the Congress authorities astatine the clip stopped our information forces.""Congress needs to archer who made the determination nether unit from a overseas power. The state has each the close to know. Congress's weakness strengthened the terrorists. The state repeatedly has had to wage for this mistake by sacrificing lives. For us, thing is much important than nationalist information and the information of our citizens," helium added, stressing that his authorities prioritises nationalist information supra each else.
Modi was referring to comments made by P Chidambaram successful an interrogation to ABP, wherever helium recalled that helium had considered a retaliatory onslaught against Pakistan pursuing the 26/11 Mumbai panic attacks but was yet advised against it. "It did transverse my caput that we should bash immoderate enactment of retribution. I did sermon it with the Prime Minister and different radical who mattered. The PM had discussed this substance erstwhile the onslaught was going on, I tin surmise.
And the decision was mostly influenced by the MEA and the IFS that we should not physically respond to the situation, but we should employment diplomatic means," the Congress person had said. "The decision was reached amid unit from the satellite that was descending upon Delhi to archer america that don't commencement a war," helium said, adding that the planetary pressure, including appeals from past US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who visited New Delhi to conscionable him and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh—convinced the UPA authorities not to motorboat a strike.Responding to this, PM Modi accused the Congress of "weakening India’s combat against terror," claiming the enactment "buckled nether overseas pressure" contempt the equipped forces being acceptable to act. He further asserted that today’s India gives a "befitting effect to panic attacks and strikes by entering wrong the location of enemies."Also read: PM Modi to Congress: Who took telephone not to deed Pakistan post-26/11?
