New Delhi:
Brandishing phone records, Digvijaya Singh finally proved that he did have a conversation with Mumbai police officer Hemant Karkare hours before the chief of the city's Anti-Terror Squad was killed in the 26/11 attacks.
A letter from phone company BSNL shows that the Congress general secretary called Mr Karkare's office on November 26, 2008 at 5.44 pm. Their conversation lasted five minutes.
Mr Singh's remarks in December last year sparked a fiery controversy. He said that Mr Karkare believed that his life was in danger because of his investigation against Hindu extremists who he believed were behind the Malegaon blasts in Maharashtra in September, 2008. The BJP suggested that Mr Singh was trying to imply that the police officer had not been killed by Pakistani terrorists. He had, the BJP suggested, irreversibly damaged India's efforts to make Pakistan accept responsibility for 26/11.
Mr Karkare's widow, Kavita, was also upset by Mr Singh's remarks. Mr Singh's party, the Congress, distanced itself from his comments. Mr Singh clarified that he had not meant to suggest that Pakistan was not responsible for Mr Karkare's death, or for 26/11.
Then on December 16, Maharashtra's Home Minister RR Patil said that there was no record of the conversation between Mr Singh and Mr Karkare. Mr Patil is from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) which is in partnership with the Congress in Maharashtra.
"Now all that I can hope for is that all those people who called me a liar, who said I was against the nation, who questioned my credibility, should atleast apologise to me. If not an apology, they should at least express regret over what they said," shared Mr Singh today.
A letter from phone company BSNL shows that the Congress general secretary called Mr Karkare's office on November 26, 2008 at 5.44 pm. Their conversation lasted five minutes.
Mr Singh's remarks in December last year sparked a fiery controversy. He said that Mr Karkare believed that his life was in danger because of his investigation against Hindu extremists who he believed were behind the Malegaon blasts in Maharashtra in September, 2008. The BJP suggested that Mr Singh was trying to imply that the police officer had not been killed by Pakistani terrorists. He had, the BJP suggested, irreversibly damaged India's efforts to make Pakistan accept responsibility for 26/11.
Mr Karkare's widow, Kavita, was also upset by Mr Singh's remarks. Mr Singh's party, the Congress, distanced itself from his comments. Mr Singh clarified that he had not meant to suggest that Pakistan was not responsible for Mr Karkare's death, or for 26/11.
Then on December 16, Maharashtra's Home Minister RR Patil said that there was no record of the conversation between Mr Singh and Mr Karkare. Mr Patil is from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) which is in partnership with the Congress in Maharashtra.
"Now all that I can hope for is that all those people who called me a liar, who said I was against the nation, who questioned my credibility, should atleast apologise to me. If not an apology, they should at least express regret over what they said," shared Mr Singh today.
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