‘Main Overseas Coverage Setback’: PM Modi’s 2011 Tweet Focusing on UPA On Tahawwur Rana Goes Viral – News18

Final Up to date:April 11, 2025, 00:09 IST

Narendra Modi, who was the Gujarat CM then, had criticised the Manmohan Singh-led UPA authorities after the US cleared Tahawwur Rana of expenses within the lethal Mumbai terror assaults in 2008

A social media publish relationship again to 2011 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is now going as India efficiently extradited Tahawwur Hussain Rana, one of many masterminds of the 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults. He had lamented the “main overseas coverage setback” after america had declared the important thing accused “harmless”.

Now, the publish on X, then generally known as Twitter, is being lauded and shared by web customers. Modi, who was the Gujarat Chief Minister then, had criticised the Manmohan Singh-led UPA authorities after the US cleared Rana of expenses within the lethal terror assaults in 2008.

“US declaring Tahawwur Rana harmless in Mumbai assault has disgraced the sovereignty of India & it’s a ‘main overseas coverage setback'”, he had mentioned.

Many web customers congratulated and credited Modi for the extradition of Rana, a 64-year-old Pakistani-born Canadian citizen who was arrested by the NIA as quickly as he stepped of a particular flight into the Delhi airport.

WHAT DID MODI GOVT, OPPOSITION SAY ABOUT ‘SUCCESSFUL’ EXTRADITION?

Whereas the BJP asserted that Rana’s extradition is an enormous success of the Modi-led authorities, the Congress dismissed this by saying the NDA authorities didn’t provoke the method however benefited from the “mature, constant and strategic diplomacy” that began beneath the UPA.

“Tahawwur Rana’s extradition is an enormous success of Prime Minister Modi’s diplomacy,” Shah mentioned on the ‘News18 Rising Bharat Summit’. He mentioned the Modi authorities’s effort is to carry to justice those that assault India’s honour, land and folks. “He shall be introduced right here to face trial and punishment. It’s a large success of the Modi authorities.”

Shah additionally took a dig on the Congress, saying those that had been on the helm on the time of the Mumbai terror assault in 2008 couldn’t carry Rana to India to face the trial.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had arrested Rana in Chicago a 12 months after the assaults in October 2009 for offering assist for an aborted plan to assault a newspaper in Copenhagen (Denmark) and offering materials assist to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). He was convicted in 2011 in that case and sentenced to 14 years in jail. However, he was acquitted of expenses of conspiracy to supply materials assist to the Mumbai terror assaults.

Congress chief and former house minister P Chidambaram, in the meantime, mentioned the Modi authorities didn’t safe any breakthrough to make the extradition attainable, neither is it the results of any grandstanding. He mentioned it was a testomony to what the Indian state can obtain when diplomacy, regulation enforcement and worldwide cooperation are pursued sincerely and with none sort of chest-thumping.

“Whereas the Modi authorities is speeding to take credit score for this improvement, the reality is way from their spin,” he mentioned in a press release.

Chidambaram, who was the Union house minister from November 2008 to July 2012, mentioned the coursework started on November 11, 2009, when the NIA registered a case in New Delhi towards David Coleman Headley (US citizen), Rana, and others concerned within the 26/11 conspiracy.

“Despite the fact that Rana was acquitted by a US court docket of direct involvement within the 26/11 assault in June 2011, he was convicted for different terrorism-related offences and sentenced to 14 years in jail. The UPA authorities publicly expressed its disappointment over his acquittal and stored diplomatic strain alive,” he added.

(With PTI inputs)