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New Delhi: In an exclusive interview to NDTV’s Prannoy Roy, Julian Assange says that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is wrong to have questioned the authenticity of the WikiLeaks cable that stormed the Indian Parliament last week. However, he also stressed the charges are worth investigating.
A cable in 2008 sent from a US diplomat in Delhi says that the Congress bought MPs ahead of its crucial vote of confidence. The Left had pulled out of the government over the nuclear deal with the US.
Speaking to NDTV, Assange says the PM’s statements “seem like a deliberate attempt to mislead the public by suggesting that governments around the world do not accept the material and it is not verified.”
The WikiLeaks founder also says, “the cables are authentic but the contents of the cables may or may not be correct. They need to be investigated, interrogated.”
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