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The Times of India
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IP Singh | TNN

After Sukhbir Badal urges PM to repeal 'repressive laws', Sikh group asks him to apologize for using them during SAD-BJP regime

Sukhbir Singh Badal Bharatiya Janata Party SAD UAPA Narendra Modi NSA Shiromani Akali Dal Jalandhar

JALANDHAR: After Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking repeal of all the "anti-democratic and repressive" laws like NSA and UAPA, Sikh group Dal Khalsa has asked him to tender apology to all the victims of these repressive laws during Akali regime.

The organisation reminded Sukhbir that the SAD-BJP government misused all such draconian laws and measures against political dissenters and opponents from 2007 to 2017.

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