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P Chidambaram (left), Pralhad Joshi (ANI)
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party launched a crisp onslaught connected erstwhile Union location curate P Chidambaram implicit his caller remarks connected the UPA government's determination not to retaliate militarily against Pakistan pursuing the 26/11 Mumbai panic attacks, accusing the Congress of “mishandling” the concern nether overseas pressure.Reacting to Chidambaram’s statements made during an interview, national 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.”
In the interview, 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.
Posting connected X, helium wrote, “Why was UPA taking orders from [Condoleezza Rice]? Why did Sonia Gandhi prevail implicit the Home Minister?” helium asked.Poonawalla further accused the Congress of giving Pakistan a “clean chit” not lone connected the 26/11 attacks but besides successful the 2007 Samjhauta Express bombing case. He alleged that the UPA authorities precocious a “Hindu terror” communicative and granted Pakistan ‘most favoured nation’ (MFN) presumption contempt repeated cross-border panic incidents.He added, “Congress gave cleanable chit to Pak connected 26/11 and Samjhauta & induced Hindu Terror angles. Today excessively they uncertainty Surgical Strike, Balakote and Operation Sindoor.”On November 26, 2008, 10 heavy equipped Pakistani terrorists carried retired coordinated attacks crossed Mumbai, sidesplitting implicit 166 radical and injuring hundreds. One attacker, Ajmal Kasab, was captured live and aboriginal executed successful 2012.
