BANGKOK, March 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra Friday denied that he planned to announce state of emergency as a tool to deal with his opponents.

    The People's Alliance for Democracy alleged that the government was behind the bombing attack in front of the house of Privy Council President Prem Tinsulanonda on Thursday so that it could cite the situation to declare a state of emergency.

    Thaksin was quoted by the web edition of the local newspaper The Nation as saying that the accusation was pure imagination.

    Thaksin is facing a strong pressure from anti-Thaksin middle-class groups, led by the People's Alliance for Democracy, to force him to step down following his family's sale of Shin Corporation shares to Singapore's Temasek Holdings in late January.

    A homemade tube like detonator exploded beside a security box in front of the residence of Thai Privy Council's Chairman Prem Tinsulanonda in central Bangkok on Thursday afternoon, injuring two foreigners and causing minor damage. Enditem