This refers to the report, “Vaidik faces flak from all”, and the editorial, “Height of insanity” (July 15). The crazy controversy over Indian journalist Ved Pratap Vaidik's meeting with Pakistani terror mastermind Hafiz Saeed in lahore recently, is one more example of how frustrated Congress leaders like Digvijaya Singh and Anand Sharma, as also a section of the media, are clutching at straws to condemn the NDA Government. Union Minister Arun Jaitley has asserted in Parliament that his Government had nothing to do with Mr Vaidik's actions.
It is evident that Mr Vaidik represented no one but himself. He went to Pakistan in a delegation comprising Congress leaders Mani Shankar Aiyar and Salman Khurshid. He stayed on for a few days to catch up with friends who arranged the meeting with Hafiz Saeed. If, as a journalist, Mr Vaidik asked him about his vicious attitude towards India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, what is wrongIJ