Vaidik did not represent govt or BJP: Naidu

Calling it a diversionary tactics of Congress, the government on Tuesday distanced itself from the meeting between Ved Prakash Vaidik and Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, saying the journalist was ‘neither authorised nor representing the government or BJP’.

Parliamentary Affairs minister M Venkaiah Naidu alleged that Congress was trying to ‘divert’ the attention of the people and the entire episode was part of the ‘disinformation campaign against this government and BJP’. 

‘I feel that the Congress is trying to make an issue of one of the journalists meeting with Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the terrorist attack. That’s a private affair. The government has nothing to do. He has been neither authorised nor representing the government or BJP. We have nothing to do with that meeting. It’s a free country, people are going to different places,’ Naidu said.