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Very difficult to move forward on amending AFSPA : Chidambaram
Morung Express | PTI | New Delhi, February 6 ():
The Army has taken a strong stand against any dilution or amendment to the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act, making it difficult for the government to move forward on this proposal, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said today.
Chidambaram, who was the Home Minister till a few months ago, said any question about opposition to amend the Act to make it “more humanitarian” should be posed to the Army. “The armed forces, and especially the Chief of Army Staff, the present one and the previous one, have taken a very strong position that AFSPA should not be amended,” he said while delivering the K Subrahmanyam Memorial Lecture here.
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