New Delhi, January 04: After much hype over whether slain ATS chief Hemant Karkare called Congress leader Digvijaya Singh or not, Singh today produced records of the call made to him on 26/11.
The Congress leader addressed the media in New Delhi and demanded an apology from Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil.
In December 2010, Digvijaya Singh created a flutter by stating that slain Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare was under threat from right-wing groups and insisted that he had spoken to the police officer a few hours before the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai in 2008.
However, the CBI had refuted the claims by saying Karkare’s call records suggested otherwise.
As a result, Singh came under fire from his own party, the Congress, as well as Kavita Karkare, but he still stuck to his stand that Karkare had spoken about threats from right-wing groups during the telephonic conversation with him.
Singh also trained his guns on BJP, maintaining that the opposition party lent its support to Hindu radical groups.
The BJP demanded that Congress force Singh to resign from the party for his “absurd” remarks that Karkare had told him hours before the 26/11 strike that he feared for his safety from Hindu extremists in the wake of the Malegaon blast probe.
Targeting BJP, Digvijaya had said “I want to ask (LK) Advaniji and Rajnathji why they went to meet the PM after Sadhvi Pragya was arrested in the Malegaon blast. Why did Rajnathji went to the jail to meet her? BJP has to answer these questions before they ask some to my Prime Minister.”
–Agencies