Congress leader and former Union Minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for remarks about the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that were misattributed to him, calling them “terribly wrong.”

“I quote the Hon’ble PM’s words (as reported in ToI): “…..has said India was ready to respond after 26/11, but because of the pressure exerted by some country, then Congress govt stopped India’s armed forces from attacking Pakistan.” The statement has three parts, and each one of them is WRONG, terribly WRONG It is disappointing to read that the Hon’ble prime minister of India imagined the words and attributed them to me,” Chidambaram said on X.

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Chidambaram’s sharp reaction came a day after PM Modi, without naming him, referred to a recent interview of a

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