{"id":2152,"date":"2019-04-04T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzittoday.com\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2019-04-04T17:00:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T17:00:10","slug":"congress-manifesto-demoralise-the-armed-forces-bjp-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/congress-manifesto-demoralise-the-armed-forces-bjp-defence-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Manifesto Demoralise The Armed Forces: BJP Defence Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NEW DELHI <\/strong>| <em>BJP criticised Congress on Wednesday, April 4, for including various resources in its proclamation that welcomes terrorists and are a threat to the national security. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman <\/strong>commended the Congress&#8217; promise to review the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and to revoke Section 124A (sedition law) of the Indian Penal Code to attack the party. She stated that Congress is not having any interest for the national security of the country but also, welcomes the terrorists for making friendly relations with them. <strong>Union minister, RK Singh<\/strong> also hit out at Congress for taking the foolish decision in the favour of separatists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Armed Forces (Special Powers) Acts<\/strong> are Acts of the Parliament of India that grant special powers to the Indian Armed Forces in which each act terms &#8220;disturbed areas&#8221;. These are imposed in the areas where armed forces are required to operate in aid to civil authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;It does not portend well for unity of the country and the morale of armed forces,&#8221; she said, hitting out at the Congress<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the upcoming 17th Lok Sabha elections, the Congress on Tuesday released its election manifesto which among other things promised a review of the AFSPA and reduction in the presence of Army and personnel of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) in Valley. It also mentioned the suitable changes need to be done for Kashmir. Nirmala put a question to the Congress alleging what they have done for the country while praising Modi government for removing AFSPA from Meghalaya, Tripura and some parts of Assam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the manifesto, the Congress also elaborated the hot cases of violence and discrimination against students from Jammu-Kashmir as well as traders following the 14 February Pulwama terror attack.<\/p>\n    \t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI | BJP criticised Congress on Wednesday, April 4, for including various resources in its proclamation that welcomes terrorists and are a threat to the national security. Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman commended the Congress&#8217; promise to review the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and to revoke Section 124A (sedition law) of the Indian [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/congress-manifesto-demoralise-the-armed-forces-bjp-defence-minister\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"reaction":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"reaction","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buzzittoday.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reaction?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}