Mumbai, July 13 (DC): Ved Pratap Vaidik, Baba Ramdev’s close aide, sparked off a major controversy after his pictures with 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed emerged on the social media. The photograph shows Vaidik engrossed in a deep conversation with Saeed.
Vaidik later played down his meeting saying that he also met Nawaz Sharif and many other leaders from Pakistan. He also said that he met Saeed as a journalist and nothing more should be read out of read into his meeting with the 26/11 attacker.
The images that are doing rounds on the social networks are likely to put the yoga guru Baba Ramdev in an embarrassing spot.
Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed had orchestrated the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Just days after his organisation was declared a terror outfit by the US, Saeed addressed a seminar at the Lahore High Court plooting against India and America.
This is the second time that Saeed, who is the founder of banned terror organisation Laskar-e-Taiba, has addressed lawyers and others within the court premises this year.