The Samajwadi Party, which is expected to extend outside support to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government, on Saturday stepped up its attack on Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Petroleum Minister Murli Deora. Although Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh denied reports that his party had demanded their removal as pre-condition to back the Congress-led government, he said he had complained against them in “black and white” to the prime minister and asked him to advise Deora to ban petroleum product exports. “I am not asking for my pound of flesh. We are against anti-people policies. Deora's behaviour is disgusting. He should come clean on whether he is a corporate honcho or a minister,” Amar Singh told a crowded press conference at his residence here. Regarding Chidambaram, Singh said: “Under his stewardship,...
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