CIA, Mossad responsible for electoral defeat of Congress in 2014: Former MP

Congress's former MP Kumar Ketkar has claimed that the US intelligence agency CIA and their Israeli counterpart Mossad were responsible for the defeat of the Congress in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

Speaking at an event organised by the Congress on the Constitution Day, Ketkar - a former journalist -- said the Congress had won 145 seats in the 2004 Lok Sabha polls and 206 in the general election five years later.

Going by the trend, the Congress should have won 250 seats and retained power convincingly. Instead, the number of the party's seats plummeted to 44, NDTV reported.

"It was then that the game started. It was decided that under no circumstances, the seat tally of the Congress should increase from 206 in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls," he said.

"There were organisations that acted in a way that 'Till the time we do not bring down the Congress from 206, we would not be able to play games here (in India)'. One of the organisations was the CIA and another was the Mossad of Israel," he said.

The two organisations had decided that they had to do something in India. If a stable Congress government or a Congress-led alliance government came back to power again, they would not have been able to interfere in India and implement their policies," Ketkar claimed.

He said the two spy agencies were of the view that a favourable government in New Delhi would be under their control and that there should be a majority government but not of the Congress.

"The Mossad prepared detailed data on states and constituencies. The CIA and the Mossad have detailed data on states and constituencies," Ketkar claimed.

He said there was discontent, disenchantment in 2014 against then prime minister Manmohan Singh- but not enough to bring the Congress numbers down from 206 to 44.

The party did not even have the numbers to claim the post of the Leader of the Opposition. "This was not the mandate of the people," Ketkar said.

He said the British had desired that India should also face Balkanisation.