pt.1 Congress says Advani conned India, BJP says he forgot

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New Delhi: In a bitter attack on the leader of the Opposition L K Advani, Jaswant Singh - after his sacking from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) last week - had revealed that the former home minister's claim that he was unaware of Jaswant Singh accompanying three freed terrorists for securing the release of 160 hostages was not true.

The crisis within the BJP deepened on Thursday with former national security advisor Brajesh Mishra saying L K Advani was part of the decisions taken "unanimously" by a Cabinet Committee on Security meet in 1999 regarding the release of militants to save the hostages on the hijacked Indian Airlines plane. And he was not the only one. Continuing the tirade against L K Advani was senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, who reiterated what Brajesh Mishra said - that Advani was in the know of the swap.

Is it time for the BJP to admit that Advani made a mistake when he suggested he did not know anything about Jaswant Singh accompanying terrorists to Kandahar? BJP Spokesperson Chandan Mitra and Congress Spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singh joined CNN-IBN to try and answer the question on Talking Point.

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• kandahar hijacking