WikiLeaks: Modi hits out at Rahul, CPI-M at govt

Mumbai/New Delhi: Training his guns on Rahul Gandhi, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today alleged that inputs provided by the Congress leader to the US envoy to India as brought out by leaked American diplomatic cables has prompted the US to pursue pro-Pakistan policies.
“Now it is clear who was prompting USA to speak in favour of Pakistan,” Modi said in Mumbai reacting to the cables leaked by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks yesterday.
In the cable sent by the US embassy in New Delhi, Ambassador Timothy Roemer said during a conversation at a lunch hosted by Prime Minister for US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in July, 2009, Rahul had told him that radicalised Hindu groups pose a bigger threat than Pakistan-based militant groups like LeT.

In Delhi, the CPI (M) said the US official cables showed the “complicity” of the Manmohan Singh government in furthering American “imperialist” interests.