While talking to Times Now Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, Assange said that when WikiLeaks started releasing cables about India, they not only revealed various scandals but also the Indian government’s response to it.
He added that he believed that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was deliberately attempting to mislead the Indian nation on what Wikileaks were. “The government will have to be pushed and pushed until they see that there is an advantage in performing a proper response.”
Assange said there are Indian names among those allegedly having secret bank accounts abroad.
As per the WikiLeaks cables published in an Indian newspaper The Hindu, a US diplomat was told that Rs50-60 crore was kept aside by the Congress party.
The purpose was to get some opposition members of the Lok Sabha on board before the trust vote in July 2008 during the first tenure of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.
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