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Journalist and Ramdev aide sparks row over Hafiz Saeed meeting

by IBNS 14 Jul 2014, 12:03 pm

New Delhi, July 14 (IBNS): A new controversy has erupted over the meeting of an Indian journalist, who is a close associate of Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, with 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed in Pakistan during a visit of scribes to that country organized by a peace research institute.

The journalist in question is Ved Pratap Vaidik, who is a freelancer and his meeting with Saeed went public with a social media photograph of the same. He met the Jamaat-ud-Dawa head responsible for the Mumbai attack of 2008 in Lahore on July 2, said reports.

While Congress is up in arms and said Vaidik is close to the BJP camp, Baba Ramdev said Vaidik met the dreaded terrorist in his capacity as a journalist.

Vaidik himself also defended his meeting and said he met Saeed as a journalist and for a journalist no one is untouchable.
 
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh tweeted, Ved Pratap Vedik meets Hafiz Sayeed . Any reaction on Social Media ? Did he go as an Envoy of NDA Govt or as a personal Envoy of PM ?

According to his Wikipedia profile, Ved Pratap Vaidik  is a scholar, political analyst and free lancer columnist of India. It says he had been with Press Trust of India as the founder-editor of its Hindi news agency “Bhasha”. Before that he was the Editor (views) in Nav Bharat Times. At present, he is the Chairman of Bhartiya Bhasha Sammelan.

Image: Vaidik with the Pak PM as posted on his site.