New Delhi, December 16: Congress leader Digvijay Singh today expressed surprise over Maharashtra Home Minister’s statement denying existence of any record of a telephonic conversation between him and slain ATS chief Hemant Karkare just before the 26/11 attacks.
“I was not expecting him to say that…,” Digvijay said hours after R R Patil dismissed the Congress leader’s statement that Karkare had spoken about threats from right-wing groups during a telephonic conversation with him hours before he was killed by Pakistani terrorists in the Mumbai attacks.
Digvijay said he was “unhappy” over the role the media and accused it of “hyping it up”.
“I am unhappy the way media has played up the issue…I am not a liar,” the Congress general secretary said.
Digvijay said that Mumbai police officer Rakesh Maria had spoken about telephone calls to Karkare in the morning while “I spoke to him in the evening”.
–Agencies