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Region pins hope on PM for AFSPA repeal
Times of India | Prabin Kalita | TNN Nov 29, 2014
The whole of northeast is looking forward to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's two-day visit to the region on Saturday with hopes that he will make an announcement on the fate of the controversial Armed Force (Special Powers) Act, 1958. But this subject does not figure on the agenda at the special meeting that Modi will be holding with NE chief ministers on the sidelines of the All India DGPs meet here on Sunday.
On top of the agenda for the Modi-NE CMs meeting are two crucial issues — the inter-state boundary row between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Nagaland and Assam and Meghalaya and the long-extended peace talks with militant outfits that are yet to bear any results, a source said. The AFSPA is not on the agenda, but Modi would definitely want an answer if someone among those attending the meeting raises the issue, a source said.
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