Training his guns on the Congress, using former Union minister P Chidambaram’s remarks as ammunition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the opposition party had succumbed to international pressure in deciding not to take retaliatory action against Pakistan after the 26/11 attacks.
In a recent interview, Chidambaram, who took over as India’s Home minister after the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, said he was inclined towards retaliating against Pakistan but the government decided to exercise restraint after global pressure not to start a war.
The Congress leader said then US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had also travelled to New Delhi to meet him and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and urged India not to take military action.
Referring to Chidambaram’s remarks – without naming him – during the inauguration of the Navi Mumbai International Airport on Wednesday, PM Modi said Mumbai, which is India’s economic capital, was targeted in 2008, but the Congress-led government gave out a message of weakness and of kneeling in
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