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Sat, 11/29/2008 - 22:56
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Priyanka for strict punishment for Mumbai attack perpetrators

New Delhi, Nov 29 (PTI) Voicing deep concern over the
terror attacks in Mumbai, Priyanka Gandhi Saturday said people
of India were united in dealing with such threats and demanded
that perpetrators of the attacks should be dealt with sternly.

"It is a threat to the nation and whoever has done this
to us, should be made to pay for it," Gandhi told reporters
here, noting that the government has been taking all necessary
steps to deal with the situation.

"The government, the nation as a whole, is reacting to
this unitedly. I think that is the most important thing. We
are all very strong as a nation and as a people and we will
fight it all together... my heart goes out to the families of
the victims," she told reporters outside a polling booth here
after casting her vote in the Delhi assembly elections.

Asked how her grandmother and late Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi would have reacted to the terror strikes had she been
alive, Gandhi said "she would have acted in a way that would
have made all of us proud".

She said every citizens of the country should take a
resolution to work against the terrorism. PTI

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