NEW DELHI, Mar 14: The Lok Sabha today witnessed heated exchange of words between the BJP and the J&KNC when Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj took up the issue of terrorist attack on a CRPF camp in Jammu and Kashmir saying despite these serious incidents, there was a demand to lift Armed Froces (Special Powers) Act from the state.
Soon after the House re-assembled following being adjourned during the Question Hour, Ms Swaraj expressed concern over the yesterday’s terroist attack on the security personnel, in which five CRPF jawans were killed.
She said it was shameful that when the obituary reference was being made, no body on the tresuary benches was present.
The trouble stated when Ms Swaraj said even after the earlier incidents of this nature, there was a demand to lift up the AFSPA from Jammu and Kashmir.
Reacting to this, Mehboob Beg and Sharifuddin Shariq of the J&KNC started shouting that the Act would have to be scrapped soon no matter what.
The prevailing din led Speaker Meira Kumar to make repeated appeals to all the members to maintain calm to run the day’s business.
The verbal duel between the Opposition and the J&KNC continued for some time as both the J&KNC members got furious over Ms Swaraj mentioning the issue of the AFSPA.
Ms Swaraj then urged them to forget differences and get united to respond to Pakistan, which according to her, was supporting terrorists and creating problems in India.
She also expressed unhappiness over how Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf, who visited India on March 9 for religious purpose, was treated well but his country did not bother to stop exporting terror in India. (UNI)
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