PM: Centre wants AFSPA removed from entire northeast

The Centre is working "speedily" towards revoking the contentious Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act from the entire northeast in acknowledgement of a 75% decline in militant violence in the region over the past eight years, PM Narendra Modi said during a whistle-stop tour of Assam on Thursday that saw him inaugurate seven cancer hospitals and lay the foundation for another seven.

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