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Jammu: Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj today attacked the Jammu and Kashmir government for arresting Leaders of Opposition from both Houses of Parliament while making a “farce” of inviting them to the official Republic Day parade in Srinagar.
“This is an extra-ordinary situation. India completes 61 years of being a Republic. This is the first Republic Day after Emergency when Leaders of Opposition of both Houses of Parliament were kept under arrest. And our fault was that we were entering Jammu and Kashmir and for this crime we were arrested,” she said.
Swaraj, along with senior party leaders Arun Jaitley and Ananth Kumar among others, was talking to reporters after being released by the J & K government in the afternoon.
“My first question to the government is what kind of a Republic is this,” Swaraj asked.
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