‘Manmohan compelled Pak to confess hand in 26/11’

Rahul Gandhi said that Manmohan Singh compelled Pak to confess that the terrorists involved in 26/11 Mumbai carnage belonged to its land.

Countering BJP’s oft-repeated charge that Manmohan Singh is a weak Prime Minister,Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Friday that the same PM compelled Pakistan to confess that the terrorists involved in 26/11 Mumbai carnage belonged to its land.

“It is the same Prime Minister who compelled Pakistan to openly confess categorically that the perpetrators of the terrorists act in Mumbai last year belonged to Pakistan,” Rahul,who was here to campaign on behalf of Congress nominee Ashok Tanwar from Sirsa parliamentary constituency,said.

He said it was due to Singh’s diplomatic strategy that Pakistan was fully exposed before the world for harbouring and outsourcing terrorism and being a potent danger to the world.

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Criticising BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate L K Advani,the Congress general secretary said that it was during his tenure that the Kandahar episode happened in which dreaded terrorists were released.

“During the tenure of so-called mighty and powerful L K Advani as Deputy Prime Minister in the NDA government,the country faced unprecedented humiliation when his foreign minister Jaswant Singh himself escorted the most dreaded terrorists to release them in a foreign land,” he said.

Rahul flayed the saffron party for accusing Congress of not being able to deal with terrorism,saying it was during the NDA regime that the parliament,Akshardham and Red Fort were targeted by terrorists.

The Congress general secretary said his party is committed to “ensuring progress and development of all sections of society,including the poor,down-trodden,farmers and toiling masses without discriminating on the grounds of caste,creed or religion”.

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Rahul was accompanied by Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda,who enumerated the achievements of Congress during its four-and-half-years of rule in the state.

Hooda said that it is due to Rahul’s efforts that the country’s “youth is being empowered to steer the ship of India’s destiny”.