Cong dismisses Jaswant's claim on Kandahar hijack

Congress today dismissed senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh's claim that L K Advani had opposed the decision to free terrorists during the Kandahar hijack crisis as ‘suspicious in timing and completely opportunistic’.

“Jaswant Singh's statement is suspicious in timing, completely opportunistic and self-serving, intended to cover up Advani's default and promote his prime ministerial ambition,” Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said.

Noting that the statement has come 10 years too late, he said, “such self-serving statements in the middle of elections fool no one.”

Jaswant had yesterday said in Darjeeling that “two members in the Vajpayee Cabinet were opposed to the idea of release of any terrorist in exchange for hijacked Indian Airlines passengers and pay any price. L K Advani and Arun Shourie voiced their views against...That should not be done. And I am sharing this for the first time.”