PMO denies receiving information on 'mole' from Jaswant

New Delhi, July 30 (UNI) The Prime Minister's Office today denied that former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh had disclosed in his letter to Dr Manmohan Singh the name of the mole he claimed was present in the PMO during the Narasimha Rao regime in the 1990s.

''The document which you sent is not an original and has no signature or letterhead. The alleged informant is not named nor is there any confirmation that the person was from the PMO,'' the Prime Minister said in a letter to the senior BJP leader and Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha.

''If you have any further information in this regard you may wish to disclose it to the public. I am, however, surprised that the material sent by you was in your possession when you were a member of the Union Council of Ministers and still you did not share it with my predecessor,'' the PM said.

While releasing copies of the Prime Minister's letter, sent to Mr Singh yesterday, the PM's Media Advisor Sanjay a Baru said the BJP leader's July 28 letter to Dr Singh was the same as was published in the latest issue of the newsmagazine 'India Today'.

Mr Singh, who made the allegation regarding a mole in the PMO in the 1990s in his book 'A Call To Honour', said in Mumbai yesterday that he had sent the ''entire text of the letter'' to the Prime Minister ''with no names omitted, no details removed''.

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