WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange told an Indian TV channel that the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was engaged in a deliberate attempt to mislead the public by suggesting that the veracity of cables between the U.S. government and its embassy and consulates in India cannot be established.
Since November last year, WikiLeaks has been publishing extracts of the cache of leaked diplomatic cables in partnership with certain newspapers. Indian newspaper The Hindu began publishing cables relating to India on March 15.

Their publication sparked off an uproar in India's Parliament after some cables suggested that India's ruling Congress party bribed members of parliament to survive a vote of confidence in 2008. At the time, leftist parties had withdrawn their support for the government as they objected to a civilian nuclear deal between India and the U.S.

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