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Even as key National Democratic Alliance partner Trinamool Congress decided not to attend the joint session of Parliament on March 26 to approve the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Bill, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday said it would make all efforts to persuade its alliance partner to back the measure.
"We will make all efforts to convince Trinamool Congress on the need to support the bill as it is essential for fighting terrorism," party spokesman V K Malhotra said.
Hitting out at the Congress party for voting against the bill in the Rajya Sabha, which forced the government to convene a joint session, he said, "One never thought they would stoop so low to oppose a law to fight terrorism, as most of the nations have similar laws to tackle this menace."
He said that the Congress by voting against the bill has 'only exposed itself to the world that it is not interested in tackling terrorism, which has afflicted this country for over two decades'.
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