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New Delhi: After Mumbai top cop Hasan Gafoor, it is now the turn of Maharashtra Dy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal to make stunning disclosures over the events that followed in the government circles after the deadly terror attack in Mumbai on 26/11.

In a disclosure that can create a fresh set of problems for Maharashtra's Home Minister R. R. Patil, Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal has blamed the State Home Minister R. R. Patil of evading his call of duty during the Mumbai terror attack by staying indoors and refusing to visit the venue.

Speaking in an interview to the DNA newspaper, Nationalist Congress Party leader and present Deputy CM Bhujbal has talked about what was happening in the administration, when Mumbai was under attack by terrorists last year.

Bhubal has reportedly said that despite trying hard to Congress leader and the then State Home Minister R.R. Patil, he didn't accompany him to the place of incident and preferred to stay inside his home.

He has said that he asked Patil that even if he didn't want to visit the place of incident, he should visit the DGP (State's Deputy General of Police) office at least. On this, Patil asked me to move on and he would follow me later to the venue.

"I asked RR Patil about the firing. I went to his home and told him that I wanted to visit the places where firing was going on. I asked him to accompany me. He told me that the police had asked him not to step out as a precautionary measure. I tried to convince him that we should at least visit the office of the Director General of police. After discussing the matter for 15 minutes, I told him that I would go. 'You carry on. I will catch you later, he told me," he said.

"I saw a news flash on TV that there had been some firing near Leopold Cafe. Initially I thought it was a fight between Shiv Sainiks and Abu Azmi. After some time I realised something was seriously wrong. I took my revolver and stepped out of the home. I had a gut feeling that something big had happened and I should rush to help people," said Bhujbal to a question about how he first learnt about the Mumbai terror attack.

Congress leader R.R. Patil, who was the Maharashtra's Home Minister at the time of 26/11 attack had to quit from his position after the incident. He resigned after his controversial statement about the deadly attack.

He has been made the State's Home Minister for the second time this year after Assembly Elections.

Earlier, former Mumbai Top Cop Hasan Gafoor had accused that some of his senior colleagues did not respond to the situation during the 26/11 terror attacks.

" A section of senior police officers refused to be on the ground and take on the terrorists. By doing so they chose to ignore the need of the hour. Yes there was a dearth of eagerness on the part of a handful of senior officers to be on the ground during those days", Gafoor has reportedly said to a News Magazine.

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