New Delhi, Feb 2 (PTI) Union Home Minister P Chidambaram today accused Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj of making thoughtless allegations and "tying herself in knots" by levelling the charge that he had misled the panel which selected P J Thomas as CVC.
Taking exception to Swaraj's charge that he misled the committee by informing it that Thomas had been acquitted in the palmolein case, the minister asserted that he did not say so.
"I take exception to the statement by Sushma Swaraj...that I had 'misled the selection committee' and told the committee that Thomas had been 'acquitted'," Chidambaram said in a statement here.
Swaraj said Chidambaram had told the committee that Thomas had been acquitted in the case.