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Chidambaram talks of "missed opportunities", says poll result to be direct product of 2010-11

New Delhi: Union Minister P Chidambaram today said whatever happens on May 16, the day Lok Sabha election results are announced, will be a “direct product” of “critical” years of 2010-2011 which witnessed anti-corruption movement

I think the way it was handled was right except that last misstep,” said Chidambaram who was the then Union Home Minister.

He said the idea was to “quitely and quickly remove” the agitators from the scene.

“I think the person in-charge goofed up that. And that led to a commotion. Only three people were injured.

But it appeared that several hundred people were injured,” he said.

The senior cabinet minister, however, said it “exposed” Ramdev who fled the scene wearing woman's cloth.

Chidambaram admitted that in 2010-11, the government did not communicate about the action it had taken to address the concerns of the people.