Picture : ANI / X Video Tweets
As the NIA began its probe into the Delhi blast, Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram talked of “home-grown terrorists” and said the government’s discreet silence is because it knows about them.
In a post on X, though Chidambaram did not talk of the Delhi blast that claimed 12 lives and injured 20 people, he posed a question on why and under what circumstances are Indian citizens turning into terrorists.
I have maintained before and after the Pahalgam terror attack that there are two kinds of terrorists — foreign-trained infiltrated terrorists and home-grown terrorists
I said so in Parliament during the debate on Operation Sindoor
I was mocked and trolled for the reference to…
— P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) November 12, 2025
“I have maintained before and after the Pahalgam terror attack that there are two kinds of terrorists — foreign-trained infiltrated terrorists and home-grown terrorists. I said so in Parliament during the debate on Operation Sindoor. I was mocked and trolled for the reference to home-grown terrorists,” he said in his post.
“However, I must say that the government observed a discreet silence because the government knows that there are home-grown terrorists too. The point of this tweet is we should ask ourselves what are the circumstances that turn Indian citizens — even educated persons — into terrorists,” Chidambaram said.
His post came on a day the Union cabinet termed the Delhi blast a “terrorist incident”.
