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RAW, IB should focus on terrorists: Amar Singh

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State executive meeting of the Samajwadi Party adopts political resolution

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh said here on Wednesday that rather than hounding Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and other party leaders, RAW and IB should focus on terrorists and their activities.

At a press conference, he said since the UPA Government had declared Mr Yadav, his brother Shivpal Singh Yadav and him (Amar Singh) as "political terrorists," the intelligence agencies were after them.

Accusing the Central Government of political vendetta, Mr. Singh said it would be in the fitness of things if the intelligence agencies went after actual terrorists.

He said unlike Union Minister of State for Home Shri Prakash Jaiswal and Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee chief Salman Khurshid, who had demanded the Chief Minister's resignation following the Ayodhya and Varanasi terror strikes, the Samajwadi Party did not want to give a political colour to the monumental tragedy in Mumbai.

He said his party condemned the cowardly act, but pointed to yesterday's incidents in Srinagar and Mumbai, which, he stated, were ruled by the Congress and NCP, a constituent of the UPA.

Claiming that the U.P. Government had been successful on all fronts, Mr. Singh listed some of the achievements of the present regime

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