The Congress core group on Tuesday reviewed the situation in the national capital in the wake of protests over the gang-rape incident emphasising that police should deal with the matter with sensitivity while there should be no room for violence.
Swami Nijanand Tirth of Patan district has filed the complaint under IPC Sections 499 and 500 (defamation) in the court of metropolitan magistrate G C Gamit. Tirth has contended in his complaint that action should be taken against Chidambaram as he has "hurt" the sentiments of Hindu saints by using the term 'saffron terrorism'.
In a strong reaction to Home Minister P Chidambaram's comments on right wing terror, Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday said that by blaming these groups for bomb attacks he was giving leverage to Pakistan to harden its position on not taking action against perpetrators of 26/11 attacks.
The action came after investigations carried out by an inter-ministerial committee formed by the home ministry in 2020.
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh hit out at Opposition-backed candidate P A Sangma and one of his key backers Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for playing the tribal card in the Presidential polls.
The concern of the Congress leadership over the situation could be gauged from the fact that Chidambaram was specially called to the meeting despite not being a CWC member.
The outlawed United Liberation Front of Assam will meet Home Minister P Chidambaram in New Delhi on February 10 to discuss modalities for the peace talks that is on the anvil between the outfit and the government.Talking to the media for the first time after the outfit decided to hold an unconditional dialogue with the government in its general council meeting on January 30, the leadership of the outfit said that Chidambaram had invited them for the meeting.
There seems to be a free-for-all in the ruling party, with senior leaders publicly disagreeing with each other on policy issues, which is unusual for a party like the Congress.
