Former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) chief AS Dulat's interview to India Today TV has kicked up a storm with the Opposition led by Congress cornering Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Congress said Dulat's interview revealed "disturbing facts" about the hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 in 1999 and 2002 Gujarat riots.
Here is a cheat sheet of Dulat's expose:
1. NDA goofed-up IC-814 hijacking : Speaking to Karan Thapar during India Today TV's To The Point program, Dulat, whose book 'Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years' is slated to be released soon, claimed that the then NDA government "goofed up" the 1999 Air India IC-814 Kandahar hijack case as no one wanted to take a decision fearing loss of lives.
2. Vajpayee govt confused over IC-814 action: Dulat, who headed RAW till 2000 before he was appointed as Special Advisor on Kashmir in the PMO during the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, said, "Let me say, we goofed up ... what was upper most in everybody's mind was security of the people." "So instead of giving out clear instruction to Punjab police, which was incharge on ground there... nobody was willing to say this plane should never be allowed to leave Amritsar."
3. 'Angry' Farooq Abdullah offered resignation: The former RAW chief also said that initially the terrorists wanted 105 terrorists to be freed. He also said two of the three terrorists were in Jammu and Kashmir and then chief minister Farooq Abdullah was angry about letting them go. Abdullah even contemplated resignation over the issue.
03/07/15 India Today
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Here is a cheat sheet of Dulat's expose:
1. NDA goofed-up IC-814 hijacking : Speaking to Karan Thapar during India Today TV's To The Point program, Dulat, whose book 'Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years' is slated to be released soon, claimed that the then NDA government "goofed up" the 1999 Air India IC-814 Kandahar hijack case as no one wanted to take a decision fearing loss of lives.
2. Vajpayee govt confused over IC-814 action: Dulat, who headed RAW till 2000 before he was appointed as Special Advisor on Kashmir in the PMO during the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, said, "Let me say, we goofed up ... what was upper most in everybody's mind was security of the people." "So instead of giving out clear instruction to Punjab police, which was incharge on ground there... nobody was willing to say this plane should never be allowed to leave Amritsar."
3. 'Angry' Farooq Abdullah offered resignation: The former RAW chief also said that initially the terrorists wanted 105 terrorists to be freed. He also said two of the three terrorists were in Jammu and Kashmir and then chief minister Farooq Abdullah was angry about letting them go. Abdullah even contemplated resignation over the issue.
03/07/15 India Today
