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UP govt dismisses Rahul's remark on Muslim youth

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government today dismissed Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's statement that some Muslim youths in riots-hit Muzaffarnagar were in touch with Pakistan's intelligence, and said it had "no inputs in this regard"."We

Samajwadi Party (SP) leader and Urban Development Minister Mohd Azam Khan also questioned the "riot track record of Congress" and asked the Congress vice-president to come out with figures of Muslims in touch with ISI.

Prominent social activist Nutan Thakur also wrote to Gandhi Friday, seeking to know who was the intelligence official who held this "illegal briefing" about ISI being in touch with Muslim youth in Muzaffarnagar.