Manmohan dares Jaswant to bare CIA mole in PMO

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday dared the Bharatiya Janata Party to come out with the name of the 'mole', mentioned in Jaswant Singh's book, who leaked sensitive information from the Prime Minister's Office during then Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao's tenure.

Talking to reporters after the all-party meeting convened by the Lok Sabha Speaker, Dr Singh said the government was not afraid of any debate on the issue.

"If they have the courage, they must identify the person and not make any excuses."

"Neither are we scared of taking any action or having a debate on the issue," he told mediapersons in response to a query.

The BJP leader, in his book 'Call for Honour', had said a mole in the PMO during the premiership of Narasimha Rao had let secret information on the country's nuclear programme pass out to an external agency.