26/11 attackers wanted terrorists freed: Digvijay

New Delhi: The Congress may be in for some rough weather again because of a senior’s leader’s conspiracy theory about the Mumbai terrorist attacks.
Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh has claimed that the terrorists who attacked Mumbai demanded the release “of certain terrorists” but the Government refused them.
"During the incident the terrorists had taken some people to hostage and demanded release of certain terrorists. But the Government bluntly denied such demands," said Singh in Indore on Sunday
"We did not compromise, rather we went ahead and eliminated them (the Mumbai terrorists)," said Singh, who didn’t name the terrorists whose release was sought.
The former Madhya Pradesh chief minister made the claims just as his party was trying to douse the controversy created by Minority Affairs Minister A R Antulay’s statements.
Antulay created a storm in Parliament by demanding a probe into the death of Hemant Karkare, the Maharashtra police office officer who was gunned down by terrorists on November 26.
Antulay claimed Karkare was investigating the Malegaon blast case, in which radical Hindu groups are suspects, and there was “more” to his death.
The minister’s statements were embarrassing for the Congress, as he appeared to be shooting his mouth just when the country was speaking out against terrorists and India was demanding that Pakistan crack down on militant groups in its terrorists.
Antulay may have spoken mindlessly but Singh's statements seem to be a clever political plot. His target is the BJP, which was in power at the Centre when the government had to release terrorists to assure the safety of passengers of an Indian Airlines flight hijacked and taken to Kandahar in December 1999.
Singh seems to convey to the public that the Congress didn’t give in to terrorists’ demands but the BJP did.