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BJP to rebels: leave the guns, we're ready to talk SRINAGAR, India, Thursday (Reuters) India' ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) held its first-ever public meeting in Kashmir and urged Muslim rebels to give up arms. "Terrorism will not work. Join the national mainstream... Ballot is more powerful than bullet," BJP President M. Venkaiah Naidu told a public rally in the heavily guarded Sher-e-Kashmir park in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir. "Leave the guns. We are ready to talk. We are talking to Pakistan, we are talking to Hurriyat," Naidu said. Rebel violence has continued in the Himalayan region despite series of peace efforts by India and Pakistan. Officials say more than 40,000 people have been killed since the rebellion broke out at the end of 1989. |
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