Later he changed his stand and told Parliament he had not talked about who killed the police officers but about who "sent them in the wrong direction".[12] His party, Congress, distanced itself from his statements. The then US ambassador, in some the US embassy cables, accuse that this early dismissal, then followed by tacit promotion, indicates that "the Congress Party will readily stoop to the old caste/religious-based politics if it feels it is in its interest."[13]