Congress MP and former Home Minister P Chidambaram responded to Amit Shah's 'Afzal Guru couldn't be hanged as long as Chidambaram was the HM' remark and said it's a mixture of insinuation, lie, and distortion. Chidambaram emphasised that Guru filed a mercy petition to the President in 2006, which was rejected in 2013, that is, after his tenure (2008-2012).