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NEW DELHI, JULY 28: Kashmiri militant, Mohammed Afzal Guru, who has been awarded death sentence in the Parliament attack case, is in news, once again. This time it is former President, APJ Abdul Kalam, who has prompted many to revive the debate on Afzal Guru's future.
Kalam, too, in the process has become the subject for discussion in political and offical circles. Kalam has denied that he delayed taking a decision on the clemency petition of Mohammed Afzal Guru. "Regarding Afzal Guru, I have not received any papers from the ministry concerned so far", Kalam said in an interview to India Today.
Kalam, who sent Afzal Guru's plea to the Home Ministry for its views, said that if the papers had come to him he “would have processed them for their worth". The BJP and other opposition parties allege the Centre is delaying a decision on Afzal’s petition to appease minorities.
Kalam did not regret another controversial decision of his tenure: Allowing the government to impose President's rule in Bihar in 2005 while he was in Moscow.
"I have no regrets. At that time, I was in Russia and I took the decision there. I had detailed discussions with the Prime Minister (Manmohan Singh) on the issue and whatever other information I needed was electronically transmitted to me. Based on that, I took the decision," he said.
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