‘Insinuation, lies, and deformation’: Chidambaram claimed the death sentence of Amit Shah’s Afzal Guru; Explains that the Mercy petition was pending. Bharat News

Senior Congress leader and former Home Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday dismissed Union Minister Amit Shah’s Afzal Guru as “a mixture of urge, lies and deformation”. Explaining his position, Chidambaram said that during his tenure, the mercy petition filed by the Guru’s wife was still under consideration by the President.Union Minister Amit Shah said in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that the death sentence for Afzal Guru, who was convicted for a terrorist attack on Parliament, could not be done for a long time as P Chidambaram was the Home Minister. Responding to the claims, Chidambaram clarified that the law is that death cannot be punished until mercy petition is disposed of.“Home Minister Amit Shah made a statement in the Rajya Sabha that ‘Afzal Guru could not be executed until P Chidambaram was the Home Minister’. The statement is a mixture of insistence, lies and deformation after convicted by the courts, a mercy petition for the President of India in October 2006, the wife of Afzal Guru filed, “Chidambaram said in a post on X. “The President dismissed the Mercy petition on 3-2-2013. Afzal Guru was hanged six days later. I was the Home Minister during 1-12-2008 and 31-7-2012. During the entire period, mercy petition was pending before the President. The law could not be punished until the punishment of mercy.” During a special discussion on Operation Sindoor and Operation Mahadev in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, Shah hit the majority community as part of his politics of politics to build the thesis of “saffron terror”.He said, “He tried to give terrorism a religious color for votes – but the people of India rejected that lie.” Shah recalled the effort in some quarters to convict Hindutva organizations for 26/11 terror attacks, which Lashkar-e-Tabiba did in Mumbai, and said that Congress leader Digvijay Singh was one of those people who had whisted it.He also recalled the effort in some quarters to convict Hindutva organizations for 26/11 terror attacks, which Lashkar-e-Tiba (Let) had done. Shah said, “All this was done for political gains. Innocent people were imprisoned, tortured and maligned – not in search of justice, but to create a story, who served the election objectives,” without name.His attack came on the eve of the court’s verdict in the Malegaon terror explosion case – the first case allegedly included members of Abhinav India, it is believed that an extremist Hindutva organization.