Chidambaram accepts the responsibility for Dantewada massacre, offers to resign
merisarkar news service
New Delhi, April 09, 2010
'The buck stops at me': Chidambaram
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday accepted the 'full responsibility' for the killing of 76 CRPF personnel at the hands of Maoists in Dantewada. He said, "The buck stops at me."
"I have been asked directly or indirectly where the buck stops after the attack. The buck stops at my desk," he said at a CRPF function in New Delhi.
He said that after his return from Dantewada on Wednesday he handed over a letter to the Prime Minister stating, "I accept the full responsibility."
In an ironical twist of the events, he used exactly the same phrase that he had used for West Bengal chief minister Buddhadebh Bhattacharjee for his failure to check the Maoists' activities in his state.
Maoists have routed an effete unit of CRPF on Tuesday in the forests of Dantewada. The fateful CRPF unit was there on an area domination mission.
However, its movements were closely tracked by the Maoists and they ambushed the unit when it was the least prepared for it -killing 76 security personnel.
