Last week, former finance and home minister and senior Congress leader Palaniappan Chidambaram was under attack from one of his own senior colleagues in the Congress party. Former law minister Hans Raj Bharadwaj squarely attacked him for being responsible and the force behind the draconian section 66A of the Information Technology Act which was quashed by the Supreme Court recently. Bharadwaj’s contention was that Chidambaram, as home minister was behind the insertion of Section 66A into the IT Act and was responsible for propagating the controversial bill. “Chidambaram has been finance and home minister and has the best blessings of the party leadership…P Chidambaram should be asked why he brought in the bill, now he is saying it was bad drafting,” Bharadwaj told a news agency recently.
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