Chidambaram’s statement dilutes fight against terror:BJP

The BJP today dubbed as uncharitable the remarks of Home Minister P Chidambaram in Washington on the controversial Ishrat Jehan fake encounter, and said such statement was not expected of him and that too on a foreign soil.

Chidambaram had said the Gujarat Government could not justify the killings using Central intelligence inputs as conclusive proof.

It (such statement) was not expected from a Home Minister of a federal government and “that too on a foreign soil”, BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters here.

When the High Court was seized of the matter and an inquiry was in progress, how could the Home Minister come to a conclusion, he asked.

“It (Chidambaram’s statement) will also dilute our fight against terrorism,” he said.