Centre should initiate steps to capture Dawood: Venkaiah Naidu

Senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu today demanded that the Centre initiate action to capture fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and also take steps to dismantle terrorist camps in Pakistan.

"The US government has successfully ended the era of international terrorist Osama Bin Laden. Taking a cue, we also should prepare to teach a lesson to Pakistan which is funding aiding and abetting terrorists. The international mood is against Pakistan and in favour of India. Our government should ask Pakistan to hand over Dawood  and the other accused in the 26/11 terror attack case," Naidu told reporters here.

If we don't act, it will be considered that our government, particularly the Prime Minister is weak, he said.

Naidu said when the entire world was expressing its happiness over the elimination of Osama Bin Laden, our Congress leaders disapproved of the way he was buried.

"Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh’s comments on Osama's burial should be taken as the views of the Congress. Such comments at a time when the entire world is appreciating the role of US for killing a global terrorist shows that the party is still trying to please Muslims with vote bank politics," he said.

Digvijay, criticising the US over the burial of Osama in sea, had reportedly said that however big a criminal one might be, his religious traditions should be respected while burying him.