lucknow union finance minister jaswant singh on saturday came out in support of controversial independent mla and pota detenue raghuraj pratap singh alias raja bhaiyya and his father and blamed the up government for delaying the release of the two from jailbooking the two under pota was wrong and immediate steps are needed to dispose off the case against them at the earliest singh told reporters herepromising to personally take interest in getting the case disposed off after the new government assumes power at the centre singh said the state government should send its recommendations through its review committee as was required in such caseshe said the then bspbjp government led by mayawati had failed to do justice to raja bhaiyya and his family and there were differences of opinion between the two coalition partners on this countto a question on patna high court decision banning criminals from contesting elections singh said there should be no place for criminals in politicson the exit poll results singh said the media appeared to be more unnerved than the bjp there is no tension in the party over the exit poll projections and the nda is all set to form the next government with clear majority however he underlined the need to bring more reliability in poll predictions by using more scientific methods to predict poll outcomesingh was in prime minister atal bihari vajpayees constituency to take part in a function organised by small entrepreneurs