India's right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) claims that Wikileaks had published documents describing their prime ministerial candidate as "incorruptible" were refuted by the website Monday.
In a series of tweets, the whistle-blowing website said that U.S. diplomatic cables they leaked in 2011 did not describe Narendra Modi as India's "lone honest politician", as the BJP have claimed.
The organization also accused Modi’s supporters of creating the impression that Wikileaks head Julian Assange had endorsed Modi.
“Narendra Modi’s BJP has been pushing this fake Modi endorsement," said Wikileaks. "But Assange has never said anything about Modi.”
“No Wikileaks documents say Modi is ‘incorruptable’, rather he is popular because ‘viewed’ as ‘incorruptible’,” they tweeted.
Wikileaks added that the U.S. cables, sent by Mumbai Consular-General Michael S Owen in 2006, had only quoted a ruling Congress party leader Manoharsinh Jadeja.
Modi was denied a U.S. visa in 2005 for his alleged complicity in 2002 inter-communal riots in his Gujarat constituency, though in December 2013 a city magistrate ruled that Modi will not face charges of collusion in a case related to the riots.
By Mubasshir Mushtaq
englishnews@aa.com.tr
