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PM upset over delay in informing Guru's family about hanging

  •   Thu, Feb 14 2013 08:45:18 AM

New Delhi, Feb 14 (PTI): Amid widespread criticism, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed his displeasure to Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde over the delay in informing Afzal Guru's family about his hanging.

Singh told Shinde that Guru's family should have been informed in advance about the execution carried out last Saturday morning at Tihar Jail here for his role in 2001 Parliament attack case, sources said.

The Prime Minister conveyed his displeasure to the Home Minister on the sidelines of the Governors' Conference at Rashtrapati Bhavan yesterday, they said.

The sources said the Prime Minister told Shinde that it was alright to be tough on terror but the delay in informing Guru's family was not how "state craft" is conducted.

The government had sent a letter through speed post, despatched Friday last, to Guru's family in Sopore in Kashmir and it reached them only on Monday, about 51 hours after the execution.

Singh took exception to the decision to inform the family by post, the sources said.

Guru's family has been angry over not being informed in advance about the hanging as they came to know only through the media after the execution was carried out.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has also strongly criticised the decision to inform the family through post in this age.
  

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  • Rathnakara A, Shirva

    Thu, Feb 14 2013

    So funny! Actually the letter sent by speed post 2-3 days back,but the speed post people thought that when Govt delayed the decision to hang Guru for almost 6 years what is the problem if we delay the delivery of post for 3-4 days? Actually speed post people are upset with govt and MMS for this double standard.

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  • Avinash, Kasaragod/Bangalore

    Thu, Feb 14 2013

    I read one joke about our PM in news paper few days back.

    Obama's Secretary tells him that sir, there was a call but no one is speaking. Then Obama tells her - you say namasthe, it must be Indian PM

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  • OSWALD VAZ, THOTTAM/BAHRAIN

    Thu, Feb 14 2013

    WHAT A STUPID COMMENT FROM PRIME MINISTER.IF IT IS NOT TOLD FORGET IT NO NEED TO MAKE IT BIG.HE IS NOT A SAINT.

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  • Ganesh, Bengaluru

    Thu, Feb 14 2013

    PM,
    We Indian public are upset with you becuase of you are lagging in dynamism and in the hands of UPA chairperson for any decision.
    During next election please contest from Lokasabha seat instead of Rajyasabha. Assam is always under fire, are you not upset with that or may be you are not aware about that though you are a RS member from Assam state.
    Good luck to you.

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  • Raymond, Mangalore

    Thu, Feb 14 2013

    Yeh Lo PM ko kuch nahi patha....

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  • Lingappa, Kuppepadavu / Dublin

    Thu, Feb 14 2013

    You are the joke of the nation my friend. The whole world has acknowledged it. Were you not upset when he killed the security guards at the parliment, one of them an unarmed woman with only a wireless set. Who are you trying to garner sympathy from?

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  • R.Bhandarkar, M'Lore

    Thu, Feb 14 2013

    Dear PM
    Whilst educating our HM about 'State craft'please give him tips too as to what to utter to avoid later stutter...It's plain that he does not have the 'Gift of the Gab' and none can gift it to him either!

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  • Sujith Nayak, Kudla / Auh

    Thu, Feb 14 2013

    Had Guru informed the govt before attacking the parliament????? This is just a gimmick my MMS for minority sympathy and vote bank politics.

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  • Rahul, Mangalore

    Thu, Feb 14 2013

    Mr. P.M. forget about afzal guru, he is an terrorist.. & he is hanged, Good work.... so no need to be upset about his family... But think about India and his future OK...........

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