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Jaswant: Rao Government knew of `mole'

New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh has claimed that the P.V. Narasimha Rao Government knew of a U.S. `mole' in the Prime Minister's Office and challenged the Government to take legal action against him for not naming the spy. He alleged that the Rao Government was somehow involved in leaking secrets about the country's nuclear programme.

``Government had the information because it was the Government that was leaking (nuclear secrets),'' he said in an interview to Karan Thapar for the CNBC's "India Tonight" show. He was asked why he had not disclosed the information about the mole when he came to know of it over a decade ago.

Mr. Singh insisted that the spy he has referred to in his book A Call To Honour was part and parcel of the Government. ``How do you separate someone from the government?'' he asked. He said he was under no obligation to share information

``If I can be charged, why does the Government not charge me?'' he asked when referred to the former BJP leader, Ram Jethmalani's remarks that his silence on the issue was a criminal offence.

PTI

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