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Embarrassed Congress distances itself from Digvijay Singh's remarks on Karkare | An embarrassed Congress has chosen to distance itself from party general secretary Digvijay Singh's controversial comments that he had a conversation with former Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare shortly before he
was killed by terrorists on 26/11. Karkare had apparently told Singh that he feared
for his safety from Hindu extremists. “There is no question of [one] agreeing
or disagreeing [with that statement],” Congress media chairperson Janardan Dwivedi
told the media on Saturday, stressing, “it concerns a conversation between two
individuals. Unfortunately one of them, Karkare, is no more with us. Digvijay
Singh will, therefore, be in a better position to comment on his statement.” Dwivedi
also said that the Congress had nothing to say about Karkare and his family's
association with Madhya Pradesh, or with Digvijay Singh. The party also had nothing
to say about the conversation between the two. Dwivedi said: “Mr. Singh has made
that private conversation public in a programme, and the party has no role in
it. Hence only he can comment on it.” Karkare's widow said on Saturday that Digvijay
Singh was playing vote bank politics in her dead husband's name, and continued
to maintain that Pakistan was behind 26/11 and not the right-wing Rashtriya Swayam
Sewak Sangh (RSS), as was being made out by Singh.
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