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U.S. stand will hit bilateral ties: BJP

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, MARCH 22. The Bharatiya Janata Party has condemned the reaffirmation by the United States to deny visa to the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, saying it would affect India-U.S. relations.

Briefing reporters here today, the party spokesman, Vijay Kumar Malhotra, said the BJP Parliamentary Party which met under the chairmanship of the president, L.K. Advani, found it ``highly objectionable'' the U.S. stand that it had nothing against the BJP but would not grant visa to Mr. Modi. Mr. Malhotra said the Parliamentary Party condemned the U.S. attitude in not paying heed even to an appeal made by the Indian Government.

He said denial of visa to Mr. Modi was not based on facts but on anti-Modi false propaganda. He claimed there was not a single case against Mr. Modi in any court in the country and none of the reports of the National Human Rights Commission relating to 2002 had mentioned Mr. Modi's name.

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