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| Antony asks states to be on utmost vigil | | | Early Times Report
Kasaragod, April 11: A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned of a "serious threat" from terrorists to the Lok Sabha election process, Defence Minister A K Antony on Saturday asked state governments to maintain utmost vigil to defeat their designs.
"We have solid information that the militants are plotting to hatch conspiracy within and outside the country to subvert the poll process and tarnish the image of democratic India. State governments must exercise close vigil in coastal belts," Antony said at an election meeting here.
Responding to a question about reports that Taliban terrorists have infiltrated to India, Singh had yesterday said "There is a serious threat, there is no doubt about that."
He had said the terrorists have neither given up their efforts to destabilise India nor abandoned their efforts to interfere with the poll process.
Antony said people "by and large are happy" with the performance of the Manmohan Singh government and UPA would come back to power after the polls.
Canvassing for the UDF nominee Shahida Kamal contesting from Kasaragod, Antony asked the voters to exercise their right to franchise for a government that would ensure sustained growth, stability, secularism and peace.
"American President Barack Obama himself had termed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a Doctor, capable of examining and find remedial measures to get out of the adverse impact of the global economic meltdown at the recently concluded G-20 meet in London," Antony said.
The CPI-M in Kerala was now targeting the Congress-led UDF for going ahead with the Israeli missile deal, Antony said and dared the CPI-M politburo to clarify whether its party leaders including Jyoti Basu and Somnath Chatterjee and a minister from Kerala had not gone to Israel for setting up agro-based units in their states.
"The people in Kerala are waiting for an opportune moment to retaliate the 2004 poll debacle and the LDF this time will be swept away in Kerala,"
Antony said the Left parties-mooted third front was only a "day dream"
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