Senior party leaders like Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj were forced to clarify in Parliament that Vaidik was not authorized by government in any way to meet Hafiz Saeed. So, who is Ved Pratap Vaidik, the man in the eye of the storm for the last couple of days?
Ved Pratap Vaidik, born 30 December 1944, Indore, is a journalist, scholar, political analyst and freelance columnist.
People who know him say that Vaidik has always seen himself as a "messenger of peace" and has unabashedly used his political contacts to be at the right place at the right time.
He had been with Press Trust of India as the founder-editor of its Hindi news agency “Bhasha”.
