New Delhi: Hours after his remarks on the UPA government’s decision not to retaliate militarily against Pakistan following the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks created a political controversy, senior Congress leader and former Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday said that he never actually said that the “US stopped us from retaliating”.

Taking it to X, he said: “In no part of the interview to Megha Prasad’s podcast did I say that ‘US stopped us from retaliating after the 26/11 attack”.

“Yet, channel after channel and the media and the Twitterati are merrily attributing words to me.”

Blaming the media for exacerbating this issue, he said: “These are the perils of talking to the media!”

The matter, which has now snowballed into a major embarrassment for the Congress as the ruling BJP, a

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