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Cong tears into BJP, says it ditched Jammu electorate Army & AFSPA 4/20/2016 12:24:53 AM ET Report Jammu, Apr 19: The offensive JKPCC today tore into the defensive, clueless and confused BJP. It all happened when BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra suppressed the truth and said that the "BJP wants the army to stay put in Kashmir and other parts of the State as the situation there is not normal" and that the BJP Government at the Centre is also for the continuation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act". Patra also went a step further and said that "army's say will be final as far as the retention and revocation of the AFSPA in J&K is concerned". "Army is chief determinant," the cornered Patra said. However, the chief spokesperson of the JKPCC took no time in debunking the claims of Patra. Fully equipped with arguments as he was, the JKPCC spokesperson reminded Patra that the PDP-BJP agenda of alliance did contemplate demilitarization of the State in a phased manner, as also for the review of the AFSPA. The JKPCC spokesperson said many other things to lay bare the disparities between what Patra said and what the agenda of alliance provided for and embarrassed Patra to the extent that the BJP spokesperson had no place to hide. The JKPCC spokesperson also lambasted the BJP for its u-turn on all the promises the saffron party had made during the election campaign. It was perhaps for the first time that any Congress spokesperson succeeded in calling the BJP's bluff so convincingly and effectively. It appears the Congress has decided to expose the BJP and its contradictions and take political mileage in Jammu province, which virtually decimated the Congress in the last Assembly elections.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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