BJP MP Sambit Patra on Saturday claimed the previous UPA government at the Centre did not take action against Pakistan after the 26/11 attack under ''foreign pressure''.

Addressing a press conference in Bhubaneswar, he said that before 2014, the Indian armed forces had the valour, but the country's leadership lacked the political will to act against Pakistan.

He alleged that the then UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi might have asked then PM Manmohan Singh, under pressure from US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, ''not to take kinetic action against Pakistan'', even as around 160 people were killed in the Mumbai attack. To back his claims, Patra cited a recent interview of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram. He quoted Chidambaram as saying in the interview, ''The whole world descended on

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