By IANS,
New Delhi: Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh said Tuesday he would go ahead with his visit to Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh town Wednesday, despite objections by some political parties and groups, to probe allegations that some local youth had been picked up by police without reason.
“People have told me that some innocent youth had been picked up (by police). I am going to find out how far it is correct. It is not a political programme,” Singh told the NDTV news channel.
The visit will come two days after Uttar Pradesh’s Anti-Terror Squad arrested an alleged Indian Mujahideen operative Shahzad Ahmed in connection with 2008 Delhi serial blasts from his village in the district.
Digvijay Singh, who is in charge of the Congress affairs in Uttar Pradesh, however, asserted that there was no question of compromise in fight against terrorism.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) criticised Digvijay Singh’s visit to Azamgarh, describing it as “crass vote bank politics”.
Party spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad said that Digvijay Singh’s visit to the town after arrest of a terror suspect would send a wrong message in the fight against terrorism. “What kind of message you (Congress) are sending?” he asked.