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\nSenior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday rejected the BJP’s charge that ‘jehadis’ and Maoists have earned party president Rahul Gandhi’s sympathy and said that the Congress was stoutly opposed to the two groups.<\/p>\n
Taking to Twitter, he said Union Minister Arun Jaitley’s accusations on Friday was \u201claughable and absurd\u201d and recalled how the UPA government fought ‘jehadis’ in Jammu and Kashmir and brought down violence there.<\/p>\n
The former union home minister also recalled how the Congress almost lost its entire leadership in Chhattisgarh to Maoists violence, when its top leaders including Vidya Charan Shukla and Nand Kumar Patel died along with others in a blast ahead of the last assembly election in Chhattisgarh in 2013.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe allegation that jehadists and Maoists have earned the sympathy of Rahul Gandhi is laughable and absurd. Congress is stoutly opposed to the two groups,\u201d he said on Twitter.<\/p>\n
Chidambaram also said, \u201cWho can forget that Congress practically lost its entire leadership in Chhattisgarh to Maoist violence?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder UPA, the government fought the jehadists in J&K and brought down the level of violence substantially,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
In a blog, Jaitley regretted that the front human rights organisations which have been taken over by the ultra-left have never spoken about the deprivation of the human rights of the innocent citizens who are victims of their violence.<\/p>\n
“They have never a tear to shed in the indiscriminate killing of the security personnel,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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