P Chidambaram
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New Delhi: As the NIA began its probe into the Delhi blast, Congress leader and former home minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday talked of "home-grown terrorists" and said the government's discreet silence is because it knows about them.
In a post on X, though Chidambaram did not talk of the Delhi blast that claimed 12 lives and injured 20 people, he posed a question on why and under what circumstances are Indian citizens turning into terrorists.
"I have maintained before and after the Pahalgam terror attack that there are two kinds of terrorists foreign-trained infiltrated terrorists and home-grown terrorists. I said so in Parliament during the debate on Operation Sindoor. I was mocked and trolled for the reference to home-grown terrorists," he said in his post.
"However, I must say that the government observed a discreet silence because the government knows that there are home-grown terrorists too. The point of this tweet is we should ask ourselves what are the circumstances that turn Indian citizens even educated persons into terrorists," Chidambaram said.
His post came on a day the Union cabinet termed the Delhi blast a "terrorist incident".