New Delhi, Nov 12 (PTI) As the NIA began its probe into the Delhi blast, Congress leader and former home minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday talked of “home-grown terrorists” and said the government’s discreet silence is because it knows about them.

In a post on X, though Chidambaram did not talk of the Delhi blast that claimed 12 lives and injured 20 people, he posed a question on why and under what circumstances are Indian citizens turning into terrorists.

“I have maintained before and after the Pahalgam terror attack that there are two kinds of terrorists — foreign-trained infiltrated terrorists and home-grown terrorists. I said so in Parliament during the debate on Operation Sindoor. I was mocked and trolled for the reference to home-grown terrorists,” he said in his post. Show Full

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