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Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister, P Chidambaram, on Thursday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remarks on the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. He called PM Modi's statement 'terribly wrong'. In a post on X, the former home minister expressed disappointment over PM Modi's alleged misattributing the words to him.

"I quote the Hon'ble PM's words (as reported in ToI): ".....has said India was ready to respond after 26/11, but because of the pressure exerted by some country, then Congress govt stopped India's armed forces from attacking Pakistan." The statement has three parts, and each one of them is WRONG, terribly WRONG. It is disappointing to read that the Hon'ble prime minister of India imagined the words and attributed them to me," He wrote on 'X'.

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Earlier on Wednesday, without naming Chidambaram, PM Modi referred to a recent interview of the Congress leader, in which he discussed the UPA government's response to Pakistan following the 26/11 attacks. Referring to his remarks, the Prime Minister asked the Congress to reveal who decided to stop the security forces from attacking Pakistan under foreign influence, asserting that the nation has the right to know.

UPA Govt Succumbed To US Pressure After Mumbai Terror Attack: BJP

Earlier, on October 4, the Bharatiya Janata Party stated that after the 2008 Mumbai terror strike, the Congress-led UPA government did not take any strong action against Pakistan as it "succumbed to the US pressure". The BJP's remarks came in view of the recent remarks of former Union ministers Chidambaram and Manish Tewari.

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Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters here, party national spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia asked the Congress' top leadership to clarify why the Manmohan Singh government allowed foreign "interference" in India's internal matters.

He demanded that Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi come clean on the "revelations" made by Chidambaram in a recent interview to a news channel. Bhatia noted that Chidambaram, who was the Union Home Minister then, said in the interview that the entire world had descended on New Delhi to stop it from taking any action against Pakistan in retaliation against the terror strike.

The senior Congress leader also said that the then US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, had asked him and then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh "not to react", he said. "And, no action was taken," the BJP spokesperson said.

(With agencies inputs)