 "Did Indian mission facilitate Vaidik-Saeed meet, asks Rahul")
"The question is did the Indian embassy facilitate the gentleman (Vaidik) or not. We are curious to find out if Indian embassy has facilitated this event.
"If they helped this gentleman in any way. That's what we are curious about," the Congress Vice President told reporters here.
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A row has erupted over the meeting of Vaidik, considered close to yoga guru Ramdev, with Saeed.
The journalist has rejected suggestions made by Congress that he might have acted as the government's envoy.
Vaidik had met the chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, said to be the parent organisation of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba, in Lahore on July 2 while touring Pakistan along with a group of journalists and politicians invited by a peace research institute.
"Ya he is an RSS man. That's a known fact," Gandhi said to a question about Vaidik.
Congress has targeted the Prime Minister's Office over the meeting, alleging its "direct involvement" and has asked the government to "come clean" on the issue.
Meanwhile, both the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha were disrupted over the issue. In the Rajya Sabha, Congress members were joined by members of SP and BSP in raising the issue.
Congress leaders had yesterday also raised in Parliament and outside the issue of Vaidik meeting Saeed, saying the journalist was "very close to Sangh parivar" and rejected the government's contention that it had nothing to do with the meeting.
"Vaidik belonged to the same organisation Vivekananda International Foundation, whose three members Nripendra Misra, P K Mishra and Ajit Doval are working for the Modi government as Principal Secretary, Additional Principal Secretary in PMO and National Security Advisor (NSA) respectively," party spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed had said at the AICC briefing.