Daijiworld Media Network - New Delhi

New Delhi, Oct 1: Senior Congress leader and former home minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday rejected claims that he had told interviewers the United States prevented India from mounting a military response after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.

Posting on X, Chidambaram said he never made the remark in his conversation on Megha Prasad’s podcast. “In no part of the interview … did I say that ‘US stopped us from retaliating after the 26/11 attack,’” he wrote, adding that television channels, online outlets and users on social media were wrongly attributing those words to him. He lamented the distortions, calling them “the perils of talking to the media.”

The issue quickly escalated into a political flashpoint, with the ruling BJP and its allies seizing on

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