Headley's deposition has fully exposed Pak, says Rajnath

"After Headley's deposition, Pakistan has been fully exposed...it should act against the culprits of 26/11 as its reality is now before the entire world," Singh, who was here to take part in a programme, said.

Reacting to the recent incident in JNU, he said no one will be allowed to play with the integrity and sovereignty of the country and stern action will be taken against all those responsible for it. The Union Home minister said India wants to become world leader but not by frightening or threatening anyone. "Rather, we want to take everyone along so that the world could take inspiration from India," he said.

Singh said English should be learnt along with Hindi but the behaviour should be as per Indian tradition and heritage which is very old and recognised by the world.

"If I had my way I would have implemented Sanskrit education in all the schools of the country," he said. Stressing that Central government was working in the interest of farmers, and for that the farmers insurance scheme has been launched. On his arrival here, Singh inaugurated blood donation camp of the Shastra Seema Bal (SSB) and paid obeisance at the Devi Patan temple.

Singh was welcomed by party MPs Yogi Adityanath, Jagdambika Pal, Daddan Prasad, Kirtivardhan Singh among others.

Meanwhile, the political slugfest over Headley's deposition that Ishrat Jahan, who was killed in an alleged fake encounter in Gujarat, was an LeT terrorist, escalated with Congress asking BJP since when it has started believing in terrorists.

The BJP on its part accused Congress of "whitewashing" facts due to its "congenital dislike" for Narendra Modi because it foresaw him as a "political threat".

Trashing demands of BJP that the Congress leadership should apologise in the matter, party leader Kapil Sibal said that the implicit faith in the statements of the Pakistani-American terrorist was "yet another example of opportunism of BJP."

Sibal said it was "very surprising" as also a "matter of some concern" that suddenly BJP and its leaders have got implicit faith in terrorists and what they say. "All over the world, Headley is a known terrorist, not to be believed. Suddenly BJP finds truth in what he says", Sibal said, taking a jibe at the ruling party remarking that it would now also believe in what terrorists Masood Azhar and Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi are saying. "Since when has BJP started believing terrorists?" 

Headley on Thursday said that Ishrat Jahan–who was killed in 2004–was actually an Lashkar-e-Taiba(LeT) operative.

Seeking an apology from Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, then Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and other party leaders lined up to "weave a fictional tale" to target Modi, then Gujarat Chief Minister, the BJP also virtually defended the police personnel arrested for killing Ishrat, saying the then UPA government made sure they were put behind bars.

"A battery of Congress leaders were lined up who went on giving statements there are evidences (against BJP leaders), there are conversations happening, there are people who said the man with white beard and black beard. It was done because Congress has a congenital dislike for Modi.