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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday seized on Congress leader P Chidambaram's remarks and said the UPA government's decision not to strike Pakistan after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack 'under someone's pressure' amounted to 'treachery'.

Speaking at the annual Dusshera rally of the Shiv Sena here, Shinde also targeted Uddhav Thackeray, head of the rival faction, accusing him of working against his own party colleagues.

'Hundreds of people died (in the 2008 terror attack), and under someone's pressure, you (the UPA government) did not attack Pakistan. This is helplessness and cowardice. This is dishonesty with the country. It is treachery with the people

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