Congress on BJP’s ‘insinuations’ against Hamid Ansari:
Congress on Wednesday strongly condemned the “insinuations and innuendos” by a BJP spokesperson against party chief Sonia Gandhi and former vice president Hamid Ansari after the Bharatiya Janata Party accused Ansari of inviting a Pakistani journalist who has claimed to have spied for the ISI. Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said in a statement that the facts regarding a conference in question are “already out in the public domain”, calling the accusations “character assassination of worst form”.
Hamid Ansari said that falsehood was unleashed on him by this controversy. He has denied the claimed of Nusrat Mirza that he had invited the Pakistani journalist for a conference in Delhi in 2010, saying that it is the government and the organiser who invites people.
The former Vice President has also rejected the allegations by the BJP that he had compromised national interests as India’s Ambassador to Iran, saying that his work as the Ambassador was, at all times, within the knowledge of the government of the day.
“The government of that time was aware of my work as the Ambassador of Iran. I am bound by a commitment to national security and avoid repercussions in such matters. The Government of India has all the information,” he said.
It is notable that former Vice President was in the middle of a controversy when Pakistani journalist Nusrat Mirza was recently seen in an interview in which he claimed that he spied on India and gathered information while he was on some visits to India. Nusrat Mirza claimed that in 2010, he was invited to a seminar on terrorism by then-Vice President Hamid Ansari. However, in the statement issued by Hamid Ansari in this regard, he has put the onus on the then UPA government saying that it is the central government that decides the names of the dignitaries to be invited to the program.
With Thanks Reference to: hindustantimes(https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/congress-on-bjp-s-allegations-against-hamid-ansari-the-level-that-pm-will-101657758089531.html),opindia(https://www.opindia.com/2022/07/hamid-ansari-issues-statement-holds-upa-responsible-for-inviting-mirza/),indiatoday(https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/didn-t-invite-or-receive-him-hamid-ansari-on-row-over-pak-journalist-s-isi-claims-1975221-2022-07-13)
