New Delhi March 22: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, himself embroiled in legal controversies, on Monday alleged that the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has deliberately misled Indians over a US diplomatic cable involving Congress in a vote-buying scandal.
"The comments that I've been hearing from the Prime Minister Singh, these to me seem like a deliberate attempt to mislead the public by suggesting that governments around the world do not accept this material and that it's not verified," Assange told an Indian news channel.
"It is wrong to suggest that it is just opinion, these are official reports made by U.S. ambassadors, sometimes it is opinion, sometimes not," Assange said.
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"If for example, this cable about bribery is incorrect, then the U.S. ambassador to India has a lot to answer for."
The U.S. diplomatic cable said a senior Congress party official told an embassy official that four MPs of Ajit Singh's Rashtriya Lok Dal party had been paid Rs 10 crore ($2.2 million) each to secure their support in the vote, which Singh won.
Singh last week denied that any members of the Congress-led coalition government were involved in buying votes to win a confidence vote in 2008 and questioned the veracity of the claims, which were aired in a U.S. diplomatic cable obtained by WikiLeaks.
The leaked cable was the latest in a slew of corruption scandals to hit the government, in cases ranging from the $39 billion telecoms scam to the Adarsh apartment scandal.
