Cong demands case of treason against Modi, Shah, Jaitley for removing AFSPA in parts of Arunachal

New Delhi: The Congress demanded on Wednesday that a case of treason be registered against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and BJP chief Amit Shah, and accused them of being “traitors” as they had removed AFSPA from parts of Arunachal Pradesh.
Congress’s chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said while on one hand, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was targeting the Congress over its manifesto promise of reviewing the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) in Jammu and Kashmir, on the other, the Government itself was removing the law from certain states.
“BJP leaders Amit Shah and Arun Jaitley are the biggest traitors as they themselves removed AFSPA from parts of Arunachal Pradesh only yesterday. What can be more double-speak than this,” he told reporters after Jaitley’s criticism of the Congress for promising to review AFSPA in Jammu and Kashmir.
Surjewala said it was the same Narendra Modi, who had in 2018 removed AFSPA from Meghalaya, 27 years after it was imposed in the north-eastern state.