Thiruvananthapuram: Nambi Narayanan, former Indian Space Research Organisation scientist and former head of the cryogenics division who has been waging a relentless battle against the infamous espionage case, claims “there are players outside the country” who were behind it. In his autobiography, Ormakalude Bhramanapadham (The Orbit of Memories), the 76-year-old narrates how he was falsely implicated in the 1994 spy case and casts aspersions on the Central Intelligence Agency of the US.
He reiterated that the spy case is a “false case, a fabricated case”, which he had said umpteen times in the past. Dr Shashi Tharoor MP released the book before a packed audience in the Thiruvananthapuram Press Club Hall on Thursday. Mr Narayanan said there were efforts to dislodge K. Karunakaran as the chief minister and to dismiss the then Inspector General Ramon Srivastava.
“ISRO spy case is a false case which has been accepted by the National Human Rights Commission. Someone has been falsely trying to implicate me. Who’s that, somebody? I suppose there are players outside the country. Let us have a new investigation,” he said adding he was ready to forget his loss. Dr Tharoor said people should take heed of it. As it happened to a good man like Mr Narayanan, it can happen to anyone. He recalled his first meeting with him when he mistook him for a yogi at a programme, ‘Meet the Public’, during his first tenure as a lawmaker.
“India, our nation has betrayed itself. Let us today recognise Nambi Narayanan and collectively forgive him. Let us also take heed to the warning that this can happen again as it happened to a good man like Nambi Narayanan. We owe it to ourselves and never let something like this happen again,” he said. Former ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair and D. Sasikumaran, former senior scientist, another suspect in the espionage case, sat among the audience. The Thrissur-based Current Books are the publishers of the 336-page book.
