Amid demands for his resignation for taking part in conferences organised by ISI agent Ghulam Nabi Fai, veteran journalist Dileep Padgaonkar said today that he had done nothing wrong and would not step down from the government’s panel of interlocutors on Kashmir.
“If someone goes through the records of the seminars and workshops I have attended over the past 30 years, they might dig out that one was organised by this intelligence agency or that banned group,” Padgaonkar told PTI over the phone.
He said he would not step down from the interlocutors’ panel, a demand made by several groups, including the Shiv Sena and the Panun Kashmir. The BJP had also criticised him for taking part in the events organised by Fai.
“I have not done anything wrong. I knew where his (Fai’s) policies were leaning towards, but I had no idea about his source of funding,” Padgaonkar said. He added that Union Home Minister P Chidambaram had fully supported him on the issue.
Padgaonkar’s statement comes days after Chidambaram made light of his participation in conferences organised by Fai, who was arrested in the US for being an ISI conduit for carrying out propaganda on Kashmir. — PTI
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