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This is an archive article published on September 6, 2011

WikiLeaks report baseless,says Cabinet Secy

Uttar Pradesh cabinet secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh on Monday described as “baseless and far from the facts” reports based on US embassy cables,reproduced by WikiLeaks,and said he had not made the statements attributed to him.

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Uttar Pradesh cabinet secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh on Monday described as “baseless and far from the facts” reports based on US embassy cables,reproduced by WikiLeaks,and said he had not made the statements attributed to him.

According to these cables,Singh had told US Charge d’Affaires Peter Burleigh at the time of Lok Sabha elections in May 2009 that Chief Minister Mayawati’s opposition to the Indo-US nuclear deal was “rhetoric’’,and that there would be no change in India’s foreign policy if Mayawati became Prime Minister,although he did not think she would become Prime Minister.

In a statement,Singh said Burleigh had requested for a meeting with the chief minister. Since the chief minister was busy,she directed the cabinet secretary to meet the US official and brief him about the state government’s plans and programmes.

During the meeting,Burleigh said Mayawati was being projected as the Prime Minister of the third front and asked about her foreign policy. The cabinet secretary told him the BSP was not part of any alliance and was contesting all Lok Sabha seats on its own. When the US official asked about BSP’s foreign policy,the cabinet secretary said he told him that the time was not right to comment on a sensitive matter like foreign policy. Singh said that the chief minister had already clarified her party’s policy on the Indo-US nuclear deal at a press conference. The cabinet secretary said he did not make any other comment,said the statement.

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