‘Worst kind of troll’: Chidambaram responds to row over his ‘homegrown terrorists’ remarks

Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram, who had stirred up a political storm with his remarks on the Pahalgam terrorist attack, responded to the controversy on Monday with a searing post on X.

“Trolls are of different kinds and use different tools to spread misinformation,” the former Union home minister wrote. “The worst kind is a troll who suppresses the full recorded interview, takes two sentences, mutes some words, and paints the speaker in a black colour!”

The attack was apparently aimed at the BJP leaders who have been widely sharing a video clip of an interview of Chidambaram with an online news portal, where he lambasted the government’s handling of the Pahalgam attack.

The BJP has accused the Congress leader of defending Pakistan after he alleged that there was no evidence to support the government’s claim that the attackers had come from the neighboring country.

Chidambaram, however, defended the interview, saying he had asked several questions to the government.

“The full interview is on QUINT. There are many questions asked in the interview. The I.N.D.I.A. bloc will raise these and more questions in the debates in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha,” he said in another post.

In the clip that is being shared on social platforms, Chidambaram can be heard asking why the government was still not able to apprehend the Pahalgam attackers.

“They are unwilling to disclose what the NIA has done all these weeks. Have they identified the terrorists, where they came from? For all we know, they could be homegrown terrorists. Why do you assume that they came from Pakistan? There's no evidence of that," he said.

The Congress leader’s remarks have given a shot in the arm for the BJP as the parliament is all set to discuss the Operation Sindoor on Monday. The opposition is eyeing to corner the government over a range of issues, including its alleged silence over India’s reported losses in the military confrontation and on US President Donald Trump’s claims that he had brokered a ceasefire between New Delhi and Islamabad.