Mystery Behind Hafiz Saeed Meeting

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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The Bharatiya Janata Party had to face accusations from Congress party this Monday after the meeting of journalist Ved Pratap Vaidik with Hafiz Saeed who is accused of being behind the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks.

Vaidik, is a journalist who is close to yoga guru Ramdev, whereas Ramdev is considered to be close to the new Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Congress says that the Government was directly involved in the meeting between Vaidik and Saeed. “This is a very serious issue with regard to national security. The PMO is directly involved in it. Vaidik belonged to the same organisation Vivekananda International Foundation, whose three members Nripendra Misra, PK Mishra and Ajit Doval are working for the Modi government as Principal Secretary, Additional Principal Secretary in PMO and as National Security Advisor (NSA) respectively,” Congress party spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed said at the AICC briefing.

He added, “Now the fourth person, who also worked in the Foundation, Vaidik, whom we knew more as a columnist rather than a regular journalist, had met the most wanted terrorist in India, who is an accused in Mumbai terror strikes. A serious question arises. Did he go to meet Hafiz Saeed at the instruction of the Prime Minister? The Prime Minister and the government must come clean on it.” Whereas the Rajya Sabha member Arun Jaitley has said that the “Government has nothing to do with directly, indirectly or even remotely with any journalist meeting Saeed…government has not sanctioned permission to anyone for meeting him.”