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Rajnath rules out AFSPA repeal - Statement dashes Northeast hopes
The Telegraph | Nishit Dholabhai | New Delhi, Nov. 22:
Relaxation in the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act is not imminent, Union home minister Rajnath Singh said here today.
Singh’s answer is an iteration of the Narendra Modi government’s hardline stand on AFSPA. Earlier, former defence minister Arun Jaitley had said that the government endorsed the army’s view on AFSPA. The army is stridently opposed to even a relaxation — leave alone abrogation — of the Armed Forces (Jammu and Kashmir) Special Powers Act of 1990.
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