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BJP welcomes initiative taken by U.P. CM

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI MAY 17. The Bharatiya Janata Party today welcomed the initiative taken by the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mayawati, in the Madhumita murder case and said the Opposition parties have no cause left in taking it up.

"The enquiry ordered by the State Government is a step in the right direction'', the BJP general-secretary, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, said in a statement.

He said the Opposition parties had no moral right to raise the issue. "Now the Samajwadi Party and the Congress should shun petty politics over the body of Madhumita Shukla for narrow political gains'', he said in a statement.

In Lucknow the party president, M. Venkaiah Naidu, welcomed Mayawati's decision to sack the controversial Minister, Amar Mani Tripathi, whose name has been linked with the murder of a young poetess but denied that the decision was taken under BJP pressure.

Mr. Naidu, who arrived here on a two-day visit, said being a major alliance partner, the BJP was bound to be affected by the opinion of the people in the wake of such incidents.

He said in public life it was imperative to have a clean image.

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